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One-third of which were in elderly homes [1]. This is an issue that's being worked on but apart from the failure to protect elderly homes, the Swedish strategy seems to be working well enough at the moment.

[1] https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/en-tredjedel-av-alla-dods...

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If you discount those 1/3rd (why should you? it's still a policy failure) it would still be 2x the rate of germany.

It would still be high but it's honestly way too early to tell if Sweden is doing better or worse than Germany since the virus will likely be around for quite a while.

It's also worth pointing out that different countries haven't been reporting COVID-19 deaths in the same way. Finland, for example, have just now started including nursing home deaths in their statistics [1]. In Sweden, it's my understanding that pretty much anyone who was infected with and suspected of dying due to COVID-19 has been included in the statistics, even if the actual cause of death might have been something else.

[1] https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/finlands_coronavirus_fata...

Even if other countries are missing some deaths (most are), these charts look still very different. Sweden 1200 deaths vs Finland&Norway at 80-150: https://images.app.goo.gl/krLeDxnBHCdQ9817A

>>One-third of which were in elderly homes [1].

That's entirely irrelevant. In Spain, about 80% of the deaths were of people over 70yo, with 40% concentrated on the cohort of between 70 and 80yo.

Let's also remember that some countries (like the UK) don't even include deaths in care homes in their numbers(!).

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