This Overlooked Variable Is the Key to the Pandemic

It’s not R.

What can we really learn from Sweden, hailed as a great success by some because of its low case counts and deaths as the rest of Europe experiences a second wave, and as a big failure by others because it did not lock down and suffered excessive death rates earlier in the pandemic? Why did widespread predictions of catastrophe in Japan not bear out? The baffling examples go on.

Zeynep Tufekci

September 30, 2020  

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