Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine approved for use in UK

Re:Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine approved for use i... by ptaipale on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @08:24AM (#25581434)

Sweden has a population density and urbanisation rate that is somewhat higher than Norway or Finland, but Denmark is far more dense.

However, Sweden's infection rate is far higher than Denmark's.

Of course here we are comparing a fairly small data set. But fortunately our friends at Our World In Data have collected a nice graph of it:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-19-death-rate-vs-po...

As you can see, it's not easy to draw a trendline that would show that a higher population density would produce higher covid infection rate. Basically, the pattern is what you get from a shotgun.

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Re:Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine approved for use i... by collyw on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @08:34AM (#25581505)

Population density is a red herring on it's own. Spain has a relatively low population density, but the cities are probably some of the most dense in Europe. Likewise 1/3 of Swedes live in cities, while there are huge areas that are very sparsely populated in the north.

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