Let’s talk about the state of New York and Sweden.
If you picked two places that were most dissimilar in the world when it came to their coronavirus responses, the state of New York and Sweden might be the best examples of opposite behaviors. Sweden effectively decided it wouldn’t change the countries behavior when the coronavirus arrived. New York tried everything to stop the coronavirus from spreading.
So what were the results?
In Sweden there were 78,504 confirmed cases, 5,667 deaths and a death rate per million of 561…
New York, on the other hand, embraced a frenzy of governmental activities. The entire state was shut down, schools were closed, no one could go to work, the mayor and the governor had daily press conferences, the media covered hospitalizations on a minute by minute basis, there was going to be a ventilator shortage!, then there wasn’t, there was a hospital room shortage!, then there wasn’t, there was a ship that pulled into New York harbor to provide health care!, only it wasn’t needed, and what were the final results in New York?
435,753 confirmed cases, 32,602 deaths and a death rate per million of 1676.
So New York undertook all these drastic actions, Sweden did nothing, and yet somehow New York ended up with triple the death rate of Sweden.
In fact, if you look at Sweden and compare it with other large countries in Europe, Sweden’s death rate per million and the charts tracking the viruses rise and fall look very similar as well.
Here are the countries in Europe and their death rates:
England 670
Spain 608
Italy 580
Sweden 561
France 462
United States 439 (so far)
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Article URL : https://www.outkick.com/sweden-had-a-far-better-covid-outcome-than-new-york-and-did-nothing/