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Editorial
. 2025 Jul 8;9(13):3223-3225.
doi: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2025016266.

COVID-19 and CLL in Sweden: lessons learned?

Stephen P Mulligan  1
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Editorial

COVID-19 and CLL in Sweden: lessons learned?

Stephen P Mulligan. Blood Adv. .
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Conflict-of-interest disclosure: The author declares no competing financial interests.

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Daily deaths (whole population) from COVID-19 in Nordic countries and Australia, from 2020 to 2024. The graphs demonstrate high mortality in Sweden in 2020 to 2021 in the prevaccination phase compared with border-sharing Norway and Finland, with Denmark, Iceland, and Australia. Note the different y-axis with 150 for Sweden; 100 for Denmark, Norway; 60 for Finland; 40 for Iceland; and 300 for Australia. Arrows indicate high mortality rates in the prevaccination phase in Sweden. Graphs from “Worldometer” site (accessed 8 March 2025). Table from Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 Dashboard site (accessed 4 March 2025).
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