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Like most people I'm 1) not a specialist at all and 2) still have an opinion.

One thing I'm looking at is the excess mortality in a country like Sweden, which had an outbreak (in the top 25 countries by cases) but has not done any lockdown.

https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/

It's flat.




Flat depends on your perspective. The death rate per capita is higher than anywhere in Asia, despite many of those countries being denser


I've heard that, but then this article says:

> In practice, however, this strategy, which was rejected in the United Kingdom, is leading to a much higher death rate in Sweden than in other Nordic countries.

and they cite a CNN source. But then I look at this data plotted on a log chart and it appears they're leveling out:

https://covidly.com/graph?country=Sweden#growth

I think it's way too early to make any inferences about which method is working better. There is a lot of noise in all the data.


The IHME model has been really interesting for Sweden. While Sweden is saying they have it under control the growth rate of their expected deaths is rising faster than any country. It was projected at about 10k by Aug 4 just a couple of weeks ago, but it is now over 17k expected to die in Sweden. Although they seem to be more OK as a country if their senior citizens die.




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