Vilified early over Covid-19 strategy, Sweden seems to have scourge controlled

Re:Vilified early over Covid-19 strategy, Sweden seems to ha... by morsch on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @04:28PM (#24643429)

Sweden started July with a bit more than double their current cases, and ended it with a bit less than half. Four weeks ago was as low as it ever got in Sweden, and since then it has risen steadily, up to more than double what it was. It's also 30% higher than the last local maximum, in the middle of August.

Here's a better source, which also isn't out of date by 6 days: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?yScale=...

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Re:Vilified early over Covid-19 strategy, Sweden seems to ha... by BurningFrog on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @06:05PM (#24644565)

I think deaths is the real metric to follow, and this curve shows the development I described: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToS...

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Re:Vilified early over Covid-19 strategy, Sweden seems to ha... by morsch on Thursday October 01, 2020 @06:42AM (#24649416)

That's not unreasonable, though you referred to cases and not deaths in your original post. Deaths lag a couple of weeks behind cases, so maybe the local minimum in deaths in Sweden corresponds to the local minimum in cases 4 weeks ago. But maybe not!

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Re:Vilified early over Covid-19 strategy, Sweden seems to ha... by BurningFrog on Thursday October 01, 2020 @01:50PM (#24654012)

Yeah, I did confuse the discourse there...

My problem with counting cases is that it's heavily dependent on how much testing is done, while deaths are always count.

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Re:Vilified early over Covid-19 strategy, Sweden seems to ha... by irq11 on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @01:34PM (#24700326)

5 days later: Deaths in Sweden continue to fall, per your own source.

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