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by yazboo 2250 days ago
Sweden has the highest death rate per capita of all developed nations.
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While current Swedish strategy carries a high risk of bringing it to that point, that statement is absolutely false right now. Swedish deaths per 1 million are currently 102, significantly lower than Spain (397), Italy (348), France (241), Belgium (383), etc.

Source: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

Where is that stat? The sources I have seen do not show that.
The stat that they're specifically referring to is the case fatality rate, but that has a lot more to do with the denominator (Sweden's utter failure to test) than the numerator (actual number of deaths).
I'd like to believe that Belgium, Italy, France and others in Europe are also developed.