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Thanks, the uk is in the same boat for testing though ?
Even with low population density I still would have thought it would spread more in towns and cities.
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Seems like similar tactics testing wise, but I'm not too clued up about either tbh
Stockholm is apparently way ahead of the curve so far. Our end of the country is supposedly far behind, but again I don't know how they know. If you count people in hospital + deaths that is.
I sincerely hope we've had it, I really don't want to find it out it was the regular flu and then having to go through the whole thing again soon
kboy
Like mentioned before, afaik Sweden has cut down on testing as they consider the data from it to be of low value. Reading between the lines in the press we've also had a spike in cases from a few Stockholm suburbs with a large Somali population where the news hasn't come through properly due to language barriers.
So if we're only measuring the outbreak from hospital cases we've had a spike from an isolated area that doesn't match the rest of the population, hence why the curve has slowed down a bit.
I'd imagine our curve could be a bit flatter as well as we're a sparsely populated country and fairly anti-social even in the best of times. Compare this to Italy where you have a coffee at a bar on your way to work every morning and also gather several generations on a weekly basis. Good traits normally, not so much now.
Obligatory not that this ^ is just my personal take on it, it's not properly researched etc etc