‘It’s been so, so surreal.’ Critics of Sweden’s lax pandemic policies face fierce backlash

During their 3 month summer break cases fell to 200 a day (but v low testing ).

On 25 September, FoHM reported 633 new cases nationwide in 1 day. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/it-s-been-so-so-surreal-critics-sweden-s-lax-pandemic-policies-face-fierce-backlash">https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020...

Stockholm’s rates have nearly tripled in 2 weeks, from 334 in the second week of September to 967 last week. Population under 10.5 million.

Whilst it has recently increased testing to Norway levels it is about quarter Denmark’

So much for the claimed herd immunity.

Despite restricting testing to the most severely ill other markers indicated much more widespread infection with 70 children diagnosed with MIS, a rare complication of CV19, 14 in ICU.

Finland (with half the schoolchildren)had fewer than 5

Sweden’s death rate similar to Italy’s

Every time I see that Tegnell email I shudder.

On hearing closing schools could reduce infection in the elderly by 10% he replied “10% might be worth it?”

His colleague & predecessor Giesecke supported him advocating “Controlled spread” “tolerable spread”

Tolerable to whom?

I’ve just seen @BillHanage has done a thread on the article so will piggy back on it https://twitter.com/BillHanage/status/1315287331834925057">https://twitter.com/BillHanag...

I forgot to add. No. Swedish hospitals managed to avoid being overwhelmed because the allowed 1k elderly in care homes to die and decided that

If you were over 80 or a BMI of 40 you didn’t get in the door of a Swedish hospital ICU

Oh. Turned away if you were too young too.