In the Coronavirus Fight in Scandinavia, Sweden Stands Apart

gwb-trading said:
Before we provide the Tuesday figures on registered COVID deaths in Sweden to keep the record straight... let's go once again walk through the weekly reporting cycle for COVID information in Sweden including new registered deaths. Reports are released on the following four days:
  • Tuesday (data for the previous three days which consists of Saturday, Sunday, and Monday)
  • Wednesday (data for the previous 24 hours since Tuesday morning)
  • Thursday (data for the previous 24 hours since Wednesday morning)
  • Friday (data for the previous 24 hours since Thursday morning)
The sole exception to this COVID schedule is when Sweden has a national holiday and COVID data is not delivered on the national holiday.

Sweden registers 9,123 new COVID-19 cases, 242 deaths since Friday
https://www.reuters.com/article/hea...9-cases-242-deaths-since-friday-idUSL8N2K13WA

Sweden, whose unorthodox pandemic strategy has placed it in the global spotlight, registered 9,123 new coronavirus cases since Friday, health agency statistics showed on Tuesday.

The figure compares to 9,779 cases the corresponding period last week.

The country of 10 million inhabitants registered 242 new deaths, taking the total to 11,247. The deaths registered have occurred over several days and sometimes weeks.

Sweden’s death rate per capita is several times higher than that of its Nordic neighbours’ but lower than in several European countries that opted for lockdowns.
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If Sweden can get their numbers down to that of Norway and Finland...that will be very impressive with the current restrictions and without doing an actual lockdown.

They just need to vaccinate more people in the hardest hit areas (cities) and vaccinate more incoming / returning citizens from other countries along with vaccinating the high risk in their ethnic communities.

I have no info about this but I'm just guessing...if Sweden, United States, France, Québec and others can vaccinate their ethnic communities with front line workers...up to 10 - 20 %...

We should see a more dramatic decrease in Infections / Hospitalizations / ICUs / Deaths in which we start hearing from heavy hit areas that they are going to lift or ease their restrictions.

Yet, if there's still a worldwide vaccine distribution problem with these new variants showing up and they are decreasing restrictions too soon before reaching like 10 - 20% of the high risk being vaccinated...

We should see a plateau @ high levels of infections / hospitalizations / deaths. That's not good too...politicians may still over-react and lock it down again beyond the current restrictions. Hopefully such will not happen and we'll know within the next 30 days.

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gwb-trading said:
Before we provide the Tuesday figures on registered COVID deaths in Sweden to keep the record straight... let's go once again walk through the weekly reporting cycle for COVID information in Sweden including new registered deaths. Reports are released on the following four days:
  • Tuesday (data for the previous three days which consists of Saturday, Sunday, and Monday)
  • Wednesday (data for the previous 24 hours since Tuesday morning)
  • Thursday (data for the previous 24 hours since Wednesday morning)
  • Friday (data for the previous 24 hours since Thursday morning)
The sole exception to this COVID schedule is when Sweden has a national holiday and COVID data is not delivered on the national holiday.

Sweden registers 9,123 new COVID-19 cases, 242 deaths since Friday
https://www.reuters.com/article/hea...9-cases-242-deaths-since-friday-idUSL8N2K13WA

Sweden, whose unorthodox pandemic strategy has placed it in the global spotlight, registered 9,123 new coronavirus cases since Friday, health agency statistics showed on Tuesday.

The figure compares to 9,779 cases the corresponding period last week.

The country of 10 million inhabitants registered 242 new deaths, taking the total to 11,247. The deaths registered have occurred over several days and sometimes weeks.

Sweden’s death rate per capita is several times higher than that of its Nordic neighbours’ but lower than in several European countries that opted for lockdowns.
More...

Let's look at the registered death data for Wednesday in the 24 hour period since Tuesday...

Sweden registers 4,183 new COVID-19 cases, 178 deaths on Wednesday
https://www.reuters.com/article/hea...9-cases-178-deaths-on-wednesday-idUSL8N2K240X

Sweden, which has spurned a lockdown throughout the pandemic, registered 4,183 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, Health Agency statistics showed.

The country of 10 million inhabitants registered 178 new deaths, taking the total to 11,425. The deaths registered have occurred over several days and weeks.

Sweden’s death rate per capita is several times higher than that of its Nordic neighbours, but lower than several European countries that opted for lockdowns.
 
gwb-trading said:
"Sweden’s death rate per capita is several times higher than that of its Nordic neighbours"
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Sweden was only the model the first few days of the Pandemic when it was equal with its Scandinavian neighbors and the same with New Zealand, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea.
  • Yet, they stayed low or excellent performance against Covid-19 except for Sweden.
Denmark was doing well too but made the error a little later in treating the Pandemic the way Sweden was doing but not the same way that Norway, Finland, New Zealand, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea.

Regardless, so far, New Zealand / Taiwan / Japan / South Korea performance is amazing.

Here's the irony, I watched a documentary last night about how the United Kingdom and United States had given Pandemic guidelines to those countries like New Zealand, Africa, Vietnam and other countries involving early border closures, face mask wearing and other critical issues to activate in the first few days of an outbreak...

The irony is that those countries today are doing very well whereas United Kingdom and United States are doing poorly because they failed to use what they taught other countries. :mad:

Simply, very poor leadership / misinformation / disinformation in the U.K. and U.S.A in those critical first few days of the Covid-19 outbreak and continue so for many months under the President Trump administration.

I wonder how many lives would have been saved had the U.K. and U.S.A. followed the same Pandemic plan as those other countries they taught in a prior Pandemic ???
  • The biggest irony...those other countries did not need to shut down their economy.
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gwb-trading said:
"Sweden’s death rate per capita is several times higher than that of its Nordic neighbours"
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Sweden had below average deaths in 2019 compared to all other Nordic neighbors.
Sweden had a much denser population.
Sweden has more long term health care facilities.
Sweden is the least homogeneous Nordic society.

and on and on and on.
 
Let's look at the registered death data for Thursday in the 24 hour period since Wednesday...

Sweden registers 4,085 new COVID-19 cases, 95 deaths on Thursday
https://nationalpost.com/pmn/health...4085-new-covid-19-cases-95-deaths-on-thursday

Sweden, which has spurned a lockdown throughout the pandemic, registered 4,085 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, Health Agency statistics showed.

The country of 10 million inhabitants registered 95 new deaths, taking the total to 11,520. The deaths registered have occurred over several days and weeks.

Sweden’s death rate per capita is several times higher than that of its Nordic neighbors, but lower than several European countries that opted for lockdowns.
 
There was news out today or yesterday that a Long Care Home facility that had residents received their vaccination 2nd dose...

The facility has an outbreak of Covid-19 infections. All residents and employees of the facility had been vaccinated. I believe it was 10 residents and 5 employees that became infected within that 30 day window of the 2nd vaccination for Covid-19. Just as strange, the news about this is from China news and I'm not able to find any news about such out of Sweden itself.
Makes me think about the efficacy of the vaccine or the possibility of a variant of Covid-19 that the vaccine is not effective against.

Reminder, I talked about possible mutations of Covid-19 in the other Sweden thread early in the Pandemic that could be more problematic.
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