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Re:Preliminary test results suggest 21% of NYC residents hav... by chasd00 on Thursday April 23, 2020 @03:51PM (#22960387)
as others have said, the area under the curve remains the same. The idea with Sweden is, after one year, the deaths will be about the same as everywhere else.
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Re:Preliminary test results suggest 21% of NYC residents hav... by gorbachev on Friday April 24, 2020 @01:27AM (#22964936)
If the hospitals get overcrowded, there will also be more people dying from other causes and suffering from long term consequences, because a percentage of them won't be able to receive adequate care.

I haven't seen any actual data on how big that impact might be, however.

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Re:Preliminary test results suggest 21% of NYC residents hav... by jobigoud on Friday April 24, 2020 @05:07AM (#22966072)
Even without overwhelmed hospitals there is a lot of excess mortality not directly explained by published COVID-19 death numbers. Including in Sweden.
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