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> As far as I know the Swedish healthcare system wasn't overwhelmed. They werent because their official position was to not send old people to the hospital and
by FranzFerdiNaN 6y ago
> As far as I know the Swedish healthcare system wasn't overwhelmed.
They werent because their official position was to not send old people to the hospital and to just let them die. 50% of all people who died lived in care homes, despite the intention being to protect exactly those people.
Here is the BBC reporting about it: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52704836 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52704836
- bagacrap 6y agoin the US, that number is 42%. 20% of Swedes are over 65 and only 15% of Americans are. So it's reasonable to assume a third more Swedes (per capita) are in nursing homes. That only about 20% more of the deaths come from that population makes me think Sweden is doing better than the US.
- bjoli 6y agoTo moderate this a bit: the two people quoted in the article are politicians for the nationalist and more nationalist right wing parties. They both have things to gain by portraying the current policies in bad light. Reports about withheld care have been hard to verify. Reports about lousy routines with regards to sanitation and disinfection have been more common. The debate about the quality of this kind of care has been going on for more than 2 decades, since even before Sweden's rather extreme laws about winnings in state-funded health care. The utter failure of these homes to not spread covid-19 is the real news. The numbers are atrocious, and stories about workers walking from sick elderly to healthy elderly without proper procedures have been rather common. Sure, the angle BBC chose is juicier, but I have some serious doubts about the accounts published.