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Originally Posted by GoodLife
Death rate per infected is not really a good way to judge success of lockdown vs herd approach. 50% of Sweden's deaths have occurred in nursing homes. In the USA its more like 1 in 4. Nursing homes have the people most likely to die, so the percentage of deaths to infected is skewed by this.
Sweden's death rate per million is a lot lower than UK, Italy, Spain, France etc They all had lockdowns too.
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Of the 50 European countries, Sweden in number 7 on the most deaths per million, 43 countries had less. I don't know if ALL the rest were in lockdown, but a large number were in lockdown, including Germany, Poland, Portugal, Greece, Ireland, Lithuania, Denmark, Norway, Hungary, Switzerland, etc.
It's all how we choose to look at the stats. Personally, I think the lockdown was the way to go, but a good plan needs to be developed to wind it down.