> the rest of Western Europe has much higher rates of death than the US
Or not, depending on country.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/total-daily-covid-deaths-...
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/total-daily-covid-deaths-...
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/total-daily-covid-deaths-...
Norway and Sweden are in other measures very similar countries. We lie right next to each other, we have quite similar political environment etc. Our societies are in general quite similar. We had a very different response to the corona virus though.