Look at how Anders Tegnell in Sweden has changed his tune.... calling natural herd immunity "futile and immoral" while pushing for regional lockdowns.
Coronavirus: Sweden’s push for herd immunity immoral, says covid chief
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/wo...f/news-story/750b732fb4ee3f8939c836f018e4b6df
The pandemic is approaching a “critical juncture” in Sweden after the number of daily cases rose by 70 per cent in a week, according to the country’s chief epidemiologist.
Anders Tegnell, the public face of Sweden’s official coronavirus response, said that it would be futile and immoral for a state to deliberately pursue herd immunity, where a large enough number of the population has been infected that the disease struggles to spread.
“There has up to now been no infectious disease whose transmission was fully halted by herd immunity without a vaccine,” Dr Tegnell told Die Zeit, a German newspaper.
Sweden’s infection rate has climbed precipitously over the past two months, rising about eightfold since the start of the autumn. It is increasing in 17 of Sweden’s 21 regions.
On Tuesday Scania county, which includes the southern city of Malmo, announced a voluntary lockdown, with residents urged to avoid shops, gyms, libraries, swimming pools, meetings, public transport and physical contact with people from outside their household.
“We need to press the emergency brake to stop this development now,” Eva Melander, the region’s medical director for infectious diseases, said.
Overall nearly 4 per cent of coronavirus tests yield a positive result, up from 1.2 per cent in early September.
“It’s one of the largest increases we have seen,” Dr Tegnell said. “Partly this is the result of more intensive tracing and testing, but we definitely also have a greater spread of infection.”
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Coronavirus: Sweden’s push for herd immunity immoral, says covid chief
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/wo...f/news-story/750b732fb4ee3f8939c836f018e4b6df
The pandemic is approaching a “critical juncture” in Sweden after the number of daily cases rose by 70 per cent in a week, according to the country’s chief epidemiologist.
Anders Tegnell, the public face of Sweden’s official coronavirus response, said that it would be futile and immoral for a state to deliberately pursue herd immunity, where a large enough number of the population has been infected that the disease struggles to spread.
“There has up to now been no infectious disease whose transmission was fully halted by herd immunity without a vaccine,” Dr Tegnell told Die Zeit, a German newspaper.
Sweden’s infection rate has climbed precipitously over the past two months, rising about eightfold since the start of the autumn. It is increasing in 17 of Sweden’s 21 regions.
On Tuesday Scania county, which includes the southern city of Malmo, announced a voluntary lockdown, with residents urged to avoid shops, gyms, libraries, swimming pools, meetings, public transport and physical contact with people from outside their household.
“We need to press the emergency brake to stop this development now,” Eva Melander, the region’s medical director for infectious diseases, said.
Overall nearly 4 per cent of coronavirus tests yield a positive result, up from 1.2 per cent in early September.
“It’s one of the largest increases we have seen,” Dr Tegnell said. “Partly this is the result of more intensive tracing and testing, but we definitely also have a greater spread of infection.”
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