Because the outbreak slowed without any strong controls.
Well, yes, people wake up eventually, when their friends are dying. That said, new cases per capita in Sweden are still an order of magnitude higher than in Finland and Norway. Denmark caught up last month, but that may be because they are so much more urbanized there.
Well, yes, people wake up eventually, when their friends are dying. That said, new cases per capita in Sweden are still an order of magnitude higher than in Finland and Norway. Denmark caught up last month, but that may be because they are so much more urbanized there.
See graphs: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToS...