I'm not fixated about it, just baffled why you want to dismiss it as a major factor.You seem a bit fixated on population density. One of the most densely populated megacities in the world, Seoul, managed to contain then quash an outbreak of covid19. It's far from the only consideration here.
Most Swedes - 85% - live in towns or cities, a very similar figure to the rest of Europe. As for Stockholm's deaths, I don't know - I only saw the figure for cases, which you can find if you track the links through Worldometer to get to Sweden's health service page. It was a little under half, something like 8,000 out of 19,000. A figure of around 1,000 deaths per million for a city that is an infection hotspot isn't off the scale, though. It's about the same as the whole of New York State currently. The figure for London hospitals at the moment is 5,000, add at least 1,000 to that with care homes included (which is included in Stockholm's figures), so not far off 1,000 per million. Go to NHS England website for those figures.
There are lots of issues with comparisons where you can end up not comparing like with like. Comparisons between cities in which the virus was allowed to spread uncontrolled for a significant period before any kind of countermeasures were taken, like London, NYC and Stockholm, are perhaps better than many other comparisons. And not so surprisingly, they turn up similar kinds of figures.
ETA: My point anyway was to do with the overall population density of any given country not being that relevant, in fact being something that can lead you down the wrong path if you're not careful with it.
Following the 2 meter rule, it's got to be much easier for an elk farmer living and working in the bumfuck middle of nowhere to avoid contact with an infected person than someone living in downtown Manhatten.
So given the obvious advantages of having a low population density that Sweden has, they've clearly done a remarkable job of getting this so wrong, no?
Edit: the 85% urban pop stat bolsters the arguement that population density is a key factor, seeing as Swedens clustsers of urban populations (Stockholm in this case) are goegraphically much, much further apart compared to other cities in the world with such high Covid death numbers.
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