Sweden is being revealed for being a complete failure. Months after the COVID crisis started they are unable to test even a tiny portion of their people now that cases are rising.
This is due to their earlier attitude that testing was not needed since letting the virus run wild would lead to "natural herd immunity".... an effort that completely failed. Now that they need to test and contain -- people the country is completely unprepared to deal with the COVID pandemic.
Testing falls short as Sweden battles second pandemic wave
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...en-battles-second-pandemic-wave-idUSKBN27Z285
The problem is not the number of tests...
The problem is how long it takes to get the results due to Sweden Healthcare system in which they relied heavily on sending their tests elsewhere and then had to wait for the results...
The below from your article.
Sweden’s decentralised healthcare system has left its regions competing for lab capacity with some resorting to sending samples abroad.
“We should, of course, do more together and have joint tenders to build national capacity,” Ann Soderstrom, head of healthcare in Gothenburg’s Vastra Gotaland Region said.
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I talked about that problem early in the Pandemic in another thread about Sweden as one of the reasons that resulted in easy spread of Covid-19 in their elderly homes and long care home facilities.
The wait time for results was too long in that 1st wave. Yet,
criminal because such has continue to be an issue here in the 2nd wave after they they acknowledged in the 1st wave that the test results long wait times were very problematic.
Testing and the Results Wait are directly connected to controlling the spread of Covid-19. Simply, they can test EVERYONE in Sweden but Covid-19 will spread rapidly in the population if it takes too long to get results and it removes individuals unnecessary from the work force while they quarantine (waiting for their test results).
I can't remember which on of the Scandinavian countries stated but they believe to control Covid-19 they needed to have results within 2 - 3 days.
Here in Canada, the same problem was an issue in our long care home facilities...it took too long to get back the results.
Today, here in Canada, its now down to 2 - 3 days to wait for Covid-19 test results. It will soon get even better when they roll out new type of testing in which someone can get the results in 1 - 2 days.
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