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Re:Vilified early over Covid-19 strategy, Sweden seems to ha... by aga98mtl on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @02:38PM (#24642068)
Stockholm is actually the only big, dense, international city in the Nordic countries. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_most_populated_mun...

The disease likes dense urban areas with a lot of poor immigrants working in big care homes. Comparing countries is not really "fair". In Canada, Montreal got hit hard. In the USA, NYC, Philadelphia and Boston got it hard. It's a urban centric disease. So yes it's fair to compare to Sweden to Germany, France, UK and Belgium.

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Re:Vilified early over Covid-19 strategy, Sweden seems to ha... by HarryHirsch on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @02:43PM (#24642137)
Sweden has 11 million citizens, 2.5 millions in Stockholm metropolitan area. Norway has 5 million people, 1.8 millions living in Oslo metropolitan area. Finland has 5.5 million citizens, 1.7 millions living in Greater Helsinki. Lots of countryside elsewhere. The Nordic countries are quite comparable.
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Re:Vilified early over Covid-19 strategy, Sweden seems to ha... by gridlockd on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @03:05PM (#24642423)
Perhaps we should also be looking at population density:

Stockholm: 11,802/sqm

Oslo: 4,268/sqm

Helsinki: 3,670/sqm

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Re:Vilified early over Covid-19 strategy, Sweden seems to ha... by HarryHirsch on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @03:08PM (#24642469)
Sure, but covid spreads during social events, it's schools, bars, concerts, churches, and you find more of that in urban aggregations than in the flat countryside.
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Re:Vilified early over Covid-19 strategy, Sweden seems to ha... by SomeoneFromCA on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @04:00PM (#24643096)
I do not where you got these numbers from.

Wikipedia:

Helsinki: 3,070.08/km2 (7,951.5/sq mi)

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Re:Vilified early over Covid-19 strategy, Sweden seems to ha... by gridlockd on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @04:11PM (#24643246)
I just picked the first google result, which happens to be metric, so I mixed that up.
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Re:Vilified early over Covid-19 strategy, Sweden seems to ha... by makomk on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @04:23PM (#24643385)
It looks like the first Google result is for the Capital Region (1.1 million people, 1418 per squqare km, 3670 per sq mile). The stat in the comment you're replying to is for Helsinki proper which only has 600,000 or so residents, and Greater Helsinki is less dense than any of these.

No matter how you slice the figures, Stockholm seems to be a bigger denser city than Helsinki or Oslo.

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