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This looks like a good place to present today's installment of the proper relative comparison of COVID-19 deaths across the world.

Below are the April 12th totals for the US and select other countries. While the US' time series ends on Day 19 (which is April 12 - and is basis of the order, i.e., I sorted the data by Day 19 values), I am publishing other countries future totals/'golfer's scores' who are on hole 8 while we're at hole 4.

As noted before, the US' ranking doesn't look like it'll move too much from here on out, though Ireland seems to be slowing down (it must be because of Bono) and perhaps we'll trade places from time to time with Switzerland. But it's unlikely we'll best Luxembourg or Cyprus or Portugal or Denmark. True, they have less than 10MM citizens per country, but German seems to be doing something right.

Meanwhile, Sweden's 'hands-off' approach hasn't yielded material gains in saving lives on an adjusted basis, though they haven't torched their service economy.

Country	Date of Day 1=day prior to hitting 1,000+ population-adjusted deaths	Day 17	Day 18	Day 19	Day 20	Day 21	Day 22	Day 23
San Marino	3/3/20	107,974	137,421	196,316	196,316	196,316	206,132	206,132
Andorra	3/21/20	89,250	93,500	97,750	106,250	110,500	110,500	123,249
United Kingdom	3/15/20	59,744	78,537	97,497	120,322	143,946	164,705	179,433
Spain	3/13/20	47,600	53,988	59,222	65,680	72,404	78,351	83,592
West Bank and Gaza	3/25/20	56,334	56,334	56,334	-	-	-	-
Belgium	3/19/20	36,689	41,379	46,669	58,193	64,056	72,148	86,332
France	3/18/20	32,034	37,212	39,762	43,855	50,817	53,490	60,078
Italy	3/5/20	26,395	29,956	33,244	37,308	41,045	44,939	49,967
Netherlands	3/17/20	25,324	28,138	31,273	33,445	35,390	39,809	42,585
Sweden	3/23/20	21,910	25,290	27,746	28,288	28,671	-	-
Switzerland	3/16/20	18,730	20,572	22,683	25,561	27,442	29,361	31,510
Ireland	3/25/20	19,218	21,428	22,366	-	-	-	-
United States	3/25/20	18,586	20,463	22,020	-	-	-	-
Luxembourg	3/17/20	16,105	16,642	16,642	19,326	22,010	23,620	24,694
Macedonia	3/24/20	14,548	15,518	16,488	16,488	-	-	-
Portugal	3/23/20	12,186	13,116	13,950	15,072	16,163	-	-
Denmark	3/22/20	11,489	12,338	13,414	13,980	14,715	15,451	-
Germany	3/25/20	10,967	10,844	11,977	-	-	-	-
Austria	3/23/20	10,106	10,920	11,809	12,475	12,956	-	-
Iran	3/9/20	8,214	8,835	9,404	9,954	10,441	10,903	11,461
Iceland	3/23/20	5,428	5,428	6,333	7,238	7,238	-	-
Cyprus	3/23/20	3,386	3,762	3,762	3,762	4,139	-	-

Thank you for this, good info

Interesting and I don't expect as severe health problems in Sweden as elsewhere. In 2013, Sweden adopted a low carb and high fat diet as part of a national dietary policy. Those who have embraced the diet will still get sick, however will not suffer the deleterious effects of dietary induced glycated hemoglobin.

Everything I have found on the technical side is in Swedish, hence the follow summary:

Sweden Becomes First Western Nation to Reject Low-fat Diet Dogma in Favor of Low-carb High-fat Nutrition

It may just as well work for them to let it infect over 50% of the population.

You should include Minnesota as an analog to Sweden.