Re:New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529
by ptr on Friday November 26, 2021 @05:27PM
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Not saying it’s the reason, but Sweden has higher urbanization than its neighbors. The country also has more people who don’t speak the native language.
Belgium has a similar population size but more deaths (27k).
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> Not saying it’s the reason, but Sweden has higher urbanization than its neighbors.
The urbanization % for the four countries are: 82.9%, 87.9%, 85.5%, and 88.1%. Which one of those do you think is Sweden? Do you think it's at all plausible that such small differences could account for an order of magnitude more deaths?
> The country also has more people who don’t speak the native language
What are the numbers, and why would that be relevant?
Sweden does not have higher urbanization then Denmark (both at 88%). Also what has native language anything to do with the spread of the virus and its mortality rate? I fail to see a logical link between the two.