The below article had an interesting quote by the top epidemiologist Anders Tegnell
...Tegnell has fought back against those views, however, and in an interview last month pushed back against the idea that Sweden had pursued a strategy of herd immunity...
Seems like now that they know they didn't achieve herd immunity (they actually admitted to such last month and did it again the month before that)...
They want us to believe that herd immunity was not one of their objectives after the same guy was quoted in saying or refer to it as one of their objectives.
Maybe he should talk to the health officials in the United States or Canada to see how well they're doing with herd immunity.
The ironic sad part is that a lot of Covididiots actually believe that herd immunity was one of the objectives by Sweden no lockdown policy including then promoting it's an experiment that herd immunity should be tried in their country to duplicate what Sweden was doing.
Now to prevent further embarrassment...Sweden has been slowly increasing restrictions / measures the past 1 - 2 months to slow the infections, hospitalizations and deaths.
Had they just followed the science (actually they did but a different scientist) and used a face mask wear policy with their no lockdown lite policy...they would have saved many lives...similar to South Korea and Taiwan.
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Top epidemiologist says Sweden has no signs of herd immunity curbing coronavirus
By
John Bowden - 11/24/20 09:10 PM EST
Sweden's top infectious disease expert said Tuesday that the country has not seen evidence of herd immunity slowing the spread of the coronavirus in the country.
“The issue of herd immunity is difficult,” Anders Tegnell, Sweden's state epidemiologist, said at a news briefing, according to
Bloomberg News.
“We see no signs of immunity in the population that are slowing down the infection right now," Tegnell said.
Sweden has seen a resurgence of the virus in recent weeks, with the rate of new infections more than doubling from earlier this year.
The country has recorded roughly a quarter of a million confirmed COVID-19 cases, and about 6,500 deaths from the disease, according to figures compiled by
Johns Hopkins University.
Some U.S. officials including Dr.
Scott Atlas, a member of
President Trump's coronavirus task force, have promoted a strategy of herd immunity despite repeated warnings from health experts that such a plan would be insufficient for controlling the spread of the virus or limiting deaths in the U.S.
Advocates of the idea have pointed to Sweden as an example, citing the country's unwillingness to implement lockdown measures inhibiting public life to stop the virus's spread.
Tegnell has fought back against those views, however, and in an interview last month pushed back against the idea that Sweden had pursued a strategy of herd immunity.
"In common with other countries we’re trying to slow down the spread as much as possible... To imply that we let the disease run free without any measures to try to stop it is not true,” Tegnell told
New Statesman.
“I want to make it clear, no, we did not lock down like many other countries, but we definitely had a virtual lockdown,” Tegnell said. “Swedes changed their behavior enormously. We stopped travelling even more than our neighboring countries. The airports had no flights anywhere, the trains were running at a few per cent of normal service, so there were enormous changes in society.”
Bloomberg noted that Swedes have faced more exposure to the coronavirus than residents in other Nordic areas and
data published this week showed that every third person tested in Stockholm has tested positive for antibodies.
https://thehill.com/policy/internat...no-signs-of-herd-immunity-curbing-coronavirus
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