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Sweden has a doubling time of the cases of about 10 days which is about the same as in Italy, but still should raise some concerns. The swiss government just co
by fxj 7y ago
Sweden has a doubling time of the cases of about 10 days which is about the same as in Italy, but still should raise some concerns. The swiss government just communicated that the strict measures can be lifted if the doubling time is more than 14 days. In Switzerland the doubling time is 8 days now.
For comparison in China the doubling time is in the order of 2 years now and in the US it is 3 days now.
- alkonaut 7y agoPlease don't compare testing/case curves. That just a report of how many tests can be performed. That will never be an accurate representation of how many are actually ill. It's an absolutely useless number for comparing between countries too since testing strategies vary. Sweden only tests those admitted to hospital (starting some randomized testing now too). Other countries already have capacity to test broader, e.g. germany, so case numbers can give a better picture of actual infection numbers. Not so in Sweden. Look at deaths, icu admittance and hospitalisations. Not case numbers. We have a worrying trend in deaths doubling every 3 days or so, but at least it is a bit slower the last 2. ICU admittance trend is great suddenly, for some reason I don't understand (trending downwards last several days).
- rasz 7y agoThere is this one trick to controlling number of cases some of the countries are using, making whole calculation meaningless.