Norway was not too far off Sweden in actions taken, but they did close their schools for a week, iirc. And yet the biggest factor is that they did not get hit as hard.
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Originally Posted by Eric Coffey
Your "summary" article is a month old, and the author's claim that Sweden has had the "highest number of deaths per-capita in the World" is disingenuous.
It was only true for daily per-capita deaths (not total per-capita deaths), and only during one specific week, and only when using a 7-day average.
Remove any of those "qualifiers" and that statement becomes a lie. All data can be manipulated, so you really need to broaden/deepen your understanding of the subject for a more accurate appraisal, IMO.
For instance, here is a real-time representation of per-capita C19 deaths showing how Belgium, Spain, Italy, and the UK "got it wrong" compared to Sweden:
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Spot on. And add San Marino to that chart and we see that there is no correlation to "lockdowns."