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The important thing to note here, and something I questioned before opening the article, is that their second wave includes hospitalizations and deaths. So it’
by t-writescode 6y ago
The important thing to note here, and something I questioned before opening the article, is that their second wave includes hospitalizations and deaths.
So it’s not “sure, they’re not immune, but their exposure to it isn’t anywhere near as deadly for their population”, etc. Instead, they’re experiencing quite a lot of death and hospitalizations, which seems an unfortunate result in their experiment.
I hope they recover from this and many lives are saved from here on, for them.
- IronRanger 6y agoThe scientific evidence seems to indicate no net effect on annual deaths from lockdown, when comparing Sweden vs Norway though: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.11.20229708v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.11.20229708v... Indeed Sweden's annual deaths are shaping up much like prior years, and COVID deaths now are in the low single digits, against about 250 people who die every day in Sweden from any cause.
- tveita 6y ago> Covid-19 associated mortality rates were 0.2 per 100,000 (95%CI 0.1 to 0.4) in Norway and 2.9 (95%CI 1.9 to 3.9) in Sweden. You can shuffle around numbers to narrow that distance a bit but you're starting with hell of a disadvantage. Afaict the article you linked only suggests there /may/ be some mortality displacement, it certainly doesn't say "no net effect".
- IronRanger 6y agoWe'll have to wait for annual death statistics for the final answer. So far, Sweden's annual deaths are tracking the same as prior years: https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-deaths/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-...