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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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