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Old 30-10-2020, 10:28   #564
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Re: Coronavirus

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Originally Posted by Pierre View Post
Everybody is seeing more “cases”, which has already been shown to be a red herring of a metric that doesn’t really tell you anything useful, only just how non-lethal the virus really is.

That graph shows deaths which is a much better metric to use.
https://time.com/5899432/sweden-coronovirus-disaster/
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As of Oct. 13, Sweden’s per capita death rate is 58.4 per 100,000 people, according to Johns Hopkins University data, 12th highest in the world (not including tiny Andorra and San Marino)
We're at 63.29 per 100,000 on the same date according to that article.
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