FT coronavirus tracker can now compare 6 countries in one go

I compared the countries which imposed the lock-down early on vs those which did not.

https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-chart/?areas=usa&areas=gbr&areas=isr&areas=swe&areas=aut&areas=nor&areasRegional=usny&areasRegional=usnj&cumulative=0&logScale=1&perMillion=1&values=deaths

  

  

Worldometer  data from May 22, 2020 

Country	Early Lock-down	Deaths /1M
Sweden	NO	389
US	NO	294
UK	NO	536
Norway	YES	43
Austria	YES	71
Israel	YES	32

From the interview with epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch here:      

              

Robert Wiblin: Yeah. What do you think of Sweden’s more laissez-faire approach?

Marc Lipsitch: I think it’s clearly killing more people than the neighbors. Having said that, I think that we’re almost all moving in that direction and that hopefully we can learn something from Sweden about what doesn’t work. But I think everybody is getting tired of being under restrictive policies and, I mean, Massachusetts so far has not reopened, but most states in the United States have begun to reopen and I think are heading in that direction. I think Sweden has, at great cost to themselves, demonstrated to the world that that’s costly.