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Originally Posted by dad911
If usa has same death rate as Sweden, we would have 200,000 dead now.
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I suppose in theory, but not likely in reality.
Sweden, in round numbers, has had 5700 deaths.
But around 4,700 of those deaths were of people who were strictly “sheltering in place” (stuck in nursing homes).
So of the 10 million others, who were not under lockdown or “shelter in place” order (i.e., the vast majority of their population), there were only 1,000 deaths.
Like NYC, Sweden had an issue with how they handled their nursing home situation. Part of it is natural, because those in nursing homes naturally have a lot of comorbidities, and also are very elderly and statistically close to death (I saw a stat that said even before Covid the chance of surviving in a nursing home for 1 year was something like 20%).
But in any event, maybe Sweden could have done better with their nursing homes (but maybe not, or not much better?). But outside of nursing homes, which represents the vast majority of society, they seem to have done quite well.