Forever Blue wrote:Sweden suffered its deadliest month in nearly 30 years in April, figures reveal as country continues to adopt a more relaxed approach to fighting Covid-19
April saw the most deaths recorded in a month in Sweden since December 1993
A total of 10,458 deaths were recorded in the country of 10.3 million inhabitants
Sweden has refused to implement strict lockdown measures seen across Europe
TopCat CCFC wrote:Sweden has now overtaken the UK, Italy and Belgium to have the highest coronavirus per capita death rate in the world, throwing its decision to avoid a strict lockdown into further doubt.
According to figures collated by the Our World in Data website, Sweden had 6.08 deaths per million inhabitants per day on a rolling seven-day average between May 13 and May 20.
This is the highest in the world, above the UK, Belgium and the US, which have 5.57, 4.28 and 4.11 respectively.
However, Sweden has only had the highest death rate over the past week, with Belgium, Spain, Italy, the UK and France, still ahead over the entire course of the pandemic.
State epidemiologist Anders Tegnell, the spokesman for Sweden's outlier coronavirus strategy, dismissed the figures on Tuesday night, arguing that it was misleading to focus on the death toll over a single week.
epping blue wrote:TopCat CCFC wrote:Sweden has now overtaken the UK, Italy and Belgium to have the highest coronavirus per capita death rate in the world, throwing its decision to avoid a strict lockdown into further doubt.
According to figures collated by the Our World in Data website, Sweden had 6.08 deaths per million inhabitants per day on a rolling seven-day average between May 13 and May 20.
This is the highest in the world, above the UK, Belgium and the US, which have 5.57, 4.28 and 4.11 respectively.
However, Sweden has only had the highest death rate over the past week, with Belgium, Spain, Italy, the UK and France, still ahead over the entire course of the pandemic.
State epidemiologist Anders Tegnell, the spokesman for Sweden's outlier coronavirus strategy, dismissed the figures on Tuesday night, arguing that it was misleading to focus on the death toll over a single week.
He's right and whilst I think they've been reckless to play Russian roulette with their citizens you have to really judge them at the end of this. If the infection rate has been so high that they have little or no second wave and have an economy with relatively little damage then may be the Swedish people will judge more kindly in due course. There's no winners in the coronavirus lottery.
epping blue wrote:TopCat CCFC wrote:Sweden has now overtaken the UK, Italy and Belgium to have the highest coronavirus per capita death rate in the world, throwing its decision to avoid a strict lockdown into further doubt.
According to figures collated by the Our World in Data website, Sweden had 6.08 deaths per million inhabitants per day on a rolling seven-day average between May 13 and May 20.
This is the highest in the world, above the UK, Belgium and the US, which have 5.57, 4.28 and 4.11 respectively.
However, Sweden has only had the highest death rate over the past week, with Belgium, Spain, Italy, the UK and France, still ahead over the entire course of the pandemic.
State epidemiologist Anders Tegnell, the spokesman for Sweden's outlier coronavirus strategy, dismissed the figures on Tuesday night, arguing that it was misleading to focus on the death toll over a single week.
He's right and whilst I think they've been reckless to play Russian roulette with their citizens you have to really judge them at the end of this. If the infection rate has been so high that they have little or no second wave and have an economy with relatively little damage then may be the Swedish people will judge more kindly in due course. There's no winners in the coronavirus lottery.
Bluebina wrote:epping blue wrote:TopCat CCFC wrote:Sweden has now overtaken the UK, Italy and Belgium to have the highest coronavirus per capita death rate in the world, throwing its decision to avoid a strict lockdown into further doubt.
According to figures collated by the Our World in Data website, Sweden had 6.08 deaths per million inhabitants per day on a rolling seven-day average between May 13 and May 20.
This is the highest in the world, above the UK, Belgium and the US, which have 5.57, 4.28 and 4.11 respectively.
However, Sweden has only had the highest death rate over the past week, with Belgium, Spain, Italy, the UK and France, still ahead over the entire course of the pandemic.
State epidemiologist Anders Tegnell, the spokesman for Sweden's outlier coronavirus strategy, dismissed the figures on Tuesday night, arguing that it was misleading to focus on the death toll over a single week.
He's right and whilst I think they've been reckless to play Russian roulette with their citizens you have to really judge them at the end of this. If the infection rate has been so high that they have little or no second wave and have an economy with relatively little damage then may be the Swedish people will judge more kindly in due course. There's no winners in the coronavirus lottery.
It will be interesting to see, they are building herd immunity while keeping the economy going and the death rate is in the same range as Belgium, Spain, Italy, UK and France, so I agree this may turn out to have been a good strategy?
thomasblue wrote:
No way is it a good strategy
Full lock down and nothing else is the only way to go
Any country that does it differently are wrong and idiots
Tony Blue Williams wrote:thomasblue wrote:
No way is it a good strategy
Full lock down and nothing else is the only way to go
Any country that does it differently are wrong and idiots
Maybe but an undoubted idiot would be a country which released elderly COVID-19 positive patients from hospital to Nursing Homes.
It is perfectly reasonable to argue that the UK's death rate would have been cut by 10's of thousands had that policy not been used.
LaBamba wrote:There is literally no evidence that herd immunity is a possibility with Covid... as stated during the briefings. But yeah they should definitely try to generate herd immunity with a disease which it may or may not be possible. Absolutely genius move!
LaBamba wrote:There is literally no evidence that herd immunity is a possibility with Covid... as stated during the briefings. But yeah they should definitely try to generate herd immunity with a disease which it may or may not be possible. Absolutely genius move!
thomasblue wrote:Bluebina wrote:epping blue wrote:TopCat CCFC wrote:Sweden has now overtaken the UK, Italy and Belgium to have the highest coronavirus per capita death rate in the world, throwing its decision to avoid a strict lockdown into further doubt.
According to figures collated by the Our World in Data website, Sweden had 6.08 deaths per million inhabitants per day on a rolling seven-day average between May 13 and May 20.
This is the highest in the world, above the UK, Belgium and the US, which have 5.57, 4.28 and 4.11 respectively.
However, Sweden has only had the highest death rate over the past week, with Belgium, Spain, Italy, the UK and France, still ahead over the entire course of the pandemic.
State epidemiologist Anders Tegnell, the spokesman for Sweden's outlier coronavirus strategy, dismissed the figures on Tuesday night, arguing that it was misleading to focus on the death toll over a single week.
He's right and whilst I think they've been reckless to play Russian roulette with their citizens you have to really judge them at the end of this. If the infection rate has been so high that they have little or no second wave and have an economy with relatively little damage then may be the Swedish people will judge more kindly in due course. There's no winners in the coronavirus lottery.
It will be interesting to see, they are building herd immunity while keeping the economy going and the death rate is in the same range as Belgium, Spain, Italy, UK and France, so I agree this may turn out to have been a good strategy?
No way is it a good strategy
Full lock down and nothing else is the only way to go
Any country that does it differently are wrong and idiots
Bluebina wrote:thomasblue wrote:Bluebina wrote:epping blue wrote:TopCat CCFC wrote:Sweden has now overtaken the UK, Italy and Belgium to have the highest coronavirus per capita death rate in the world, throwing its decision to avoid a strict lockdown into further doubt.
According to figures collated by the Our World in Data website, Sweden had 6.08 deaths per million inhabitants per day on a rolling seven-day average between May 13 and May 20.
This is the highest in the world, above the UK, Belgium and the US, which have 5.57, 4.28 and 4.11 respectively.
However, Sweden has only had the highest death rate over the past week, with Belgium, Spain, Italy, the UK and France, still ahead over the entire course of the pandemic.
State epidemiologist Anders Tegnell, the spokesman for Sweden's outlier coronavirus strategy, dismissed the figures on Tuesday night, arguing that it was misleading to focus on the death toll over a single week.
He's right and whilst I think they've been reckless to play Russian roulette with their citizens you have to really judge them at the end of this. If the infection rate has been so high that they have little or no second wave and have an economy with relatively little damage then may be the Swedish people will judge more kindly in due course. There's no winners in the coronavirus lottery.
It will be interesting to see, they are building herd immunity while keeping the economy going and the death rate is in the same range as Belgium, Spain, Italy, UK and France, so I agree this may turn out to have been a good strategy?
No way is it a good strategy
Full lock down and nothing else is the only way to go
Any country that does it differently are wrong and idiots
Full lockdown is not the best method, South Korea had the best methods!!!
South Korea -- which in February had the largest outbreak outside of China -- used a combination of widespread testing, aggressive contact tracing, stern public health measures and digital technology to contain the coronavirus without having to impose a widespread lockdown. It also maintained a strict quarantine regime.
I would add to that social distancing and banning large groups much earlier would have been a better strategy also, but of course all this is with hindsight. .
Bluebina wrote:thomasblue wrote:Bluebina wrote:epping blue wrote:TopCat CCFC wrote:Sweden has now overtaken the UK, Italy and Belgium to have the highest coronavirus per capita death rate in the world, throwing its decision to avoid a strict lockdown into further doubt.
According to figures collated by the Our World in Data website, Sweden had 6.08 deaths per million inhabitants per day on a rolling seven-day average between May 13 and May 20.
This is the highest in the world, above the UK, Belgium and the US, which have 5.57, 4.28 and 4.11 respectively.
However, Sweden has only had the highest death rate over the past week, with Belgium, Spain, Italy, the UK and France, still ahead over the entire course of the pandemic.
State epidemiologist Anders Tegnell, the spokesman for Sweden's outlier coronavirus strategy, dismissed the figures on Tuesday night, arguing that it was misleading to focus on the death toll over a single week.
He's right and whilst I think they've been reckless to play Russian roulette with their citizens you have to really judge them at the end of this. If the infection rate has been so high that they have little or no second wave and have an economy with relatively little damage then may be the Swedish people will judge more kindly in due course. There's no winners in the coronavirus lottery.
It will be interesting to see, they are building herd immunity while keeping the economy going and the death rate is in the same range as Belgium, Spain, Italy, UK and France, so I agree this may turn out to have been a good strategy?
No way is it a good strategy
Full lock down and nothing else is the only way to go
Any country that does it differently are wrong and idiots
Full lockdown is not the best method, South Korea had the best methods!!!
South Korea -- which in February had the largest outbreak outside of China -- used a combination of widespread testing, aggressive contact tracing, stern public health measures and digital technology to contain the coronavirus without having to impose a widespread lockdown. It also maintained a strict quarantine regime.
I would add to that social distancing and banning large groups much earlier would have been a better strategy also, but of course all this is with hindsight. .
rumpo kid wrote:Think it’s why the Germans have done well also.. very disciplined. Unfortunately, many here are entitled.
We have a kindergarten police force tho..
Foghorn65 wrote:Report this week revealed Sweden has the highest per capital death toll
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