One again - Germany reports and allocates deaths nearly immediately by date. Sweden is similar to Florida -- there is a delay in reporting and then a significant delay in allocating the date of death. You will need to wait several weeks to get the actual properly allocated Swedish death figures.
Anyone who believes that the deaths per million in Sweden is declining in recent days does not have their head screwed on straight -- especially since the number of reported deaths is going up on each reported day.
Let's take a look at something that is more up to date - cases. Ignoring the fact that Sweden is urging people not to get tested because they are both out of tests and lab processing capability -- so the cases numbers in Sweden are skewed down.
https://ourworldindata.org/coronavi...othing=7&pickerMetric=location&pickerSort=asc
Canada / Germany doing better than both Sweden / United States in their
overall Covid Resilience Ranking as shown in my earlier charts as of November 23rd.
Canada 73.2
Germany 71.2
Sweden 68.7
United States 66.5
The places to be is New Zealand, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea...they are kicking everybody but in Covid-19 performance.
New Zealand 85.4
Japan 85.0
Taiwan 82.9
South Korea 82.3
The Scandinavian countries that did in fact lockdown and had a successful lockdown...are clearly outperforming Sweden too as shown below.
Finland 82.0
Norway 81.6
Denmark 77.0
Sweden 68.7
Its obvious that the above countries that in fact lockdown are also outperforming Sweden Covid-19 performance except for the United States.
Top Performers
New Zealand tops the Ranking as of Nov. 23 thanks to decisive, swift action. The small island nation locked down on March 26 before a single Covid-related death had occurred, shutting its borders despite the economy’s heavy reliance on tourism. Early on, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s government said it would target
“elimination” of the virus, pouring resources into testing, contact tracing and a centralized
quarantine strategy to snuff out local transmission. Having largely achieved it, New Zealanders are basically living in a world without Covid. The nation has seen just a handful of infections in the community in recent months, and live music and large-scale social events are back on. Though its tourism industries are suffering, New Zealand is also well-positioned for a vaccine with two supply deals in place, including one for the shot developed by Pfizer Inc. and Germany’s BioNTech SE.
Commuters walk through Shinagawa station in Tokyo on Nov. 18. High levels of social trust and compliance meant citizens pro-actively wore masks and avoided crowded places. Photographer: Carl Court/Getty Images
In second place is Japan, which charted a different path. It
lacks legal means to enforce a lockdown, but other strengths emerged quickly. Due to tuberculosis outbreaks in the past, the country has
maintained a public health center system staffed with contact tracers who were quickly redeployed on Covid-19. High levels of social trust and compliance meant citizens pro-actively wore masks and avoided crowded places. Although it’s now seeing a
record uptick in infections as winter looms, the nation of more than 120 million people has just
331 serious cases of Covid-19 currently; France, with a population half the size, has nearly 5,000 virus patients in
intensive care. Japan’s ability to avoid fatalities despite having the oldest population in the world propelled it higher, as did its foresight in sewing up four vaccine deals—including both frontrunner candidates that use the revolutionary
mRNA technology.
Third-place Taiwan’s success is all the more remarkable considering its linkages to mainland China, where the virus first emerged last December.
Whisper networks conveying worrying news from Wuhan allowed Taiwan to act
early in restricting entry at its borders. The island then pioneered a tech-focused approach to rallying its 23 million people to protect themselves: launching
apps that detail where masks are in stock or list locations where infected people visited. It’s gone more than 200 days without a locally transmitted virus case and much like New Zealand, life has largely reverted to normal, though borders remain shut. Taiwan has so far, however, failed to ink any bilateral deals for the most progressed vaccines.
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