[magnus]

The numbers told a shocking story: irrespective of whether the country quarantined like Israel, or went about business as usual like Sweden, coronavirus peaked and subsided in the exact same way. In the exact, same, way. His graphs show that all countries experienced seemingly identical coronavirus infection patterns, with the number of infected peaking in the sixth week and rapidly subsiding by the eighth week.

The pattern may be the same, but the magnitude was VERY different.  

Look at this ft.com tracker showing daily deaths (after 3rd death)
https://www.ft.com/__origami/service/ima...width=1260

You can see how much higher the Sweden peak was vs Israel, even though Israel and Sweden have about the same size population (10% difference) and Sweden is MUCH larger area wise than Israel.

[magnus]

The numbers told a shocking story: irrespective of whether the country quarantined like Israel, or went about business as usual like Sweden, coronavirus peaked and subsided in the exact same way. In the exact, same, way. His graphs show that all countries experienced seemingly identical coronavirus infection patterns, with the number of infected peaking in the sixth week and rapidly subsiding by the eighth week.

The pattern may be the same, but the magnitude was VERY different.  

Look at this ft.com tracker showing daily deaths (after 3rd death)
https://www.ft.com/__origami/service/ima...width=1260

You can see how much higher the Sweden peak was vs Israel, even though Israel and Sweden have about the same size population (10% difference) and Sweden is MUCH larger area wise than Israel.