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The article got a lot of counter comments from people living in Sweden at https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/jyg8fr/covid19_swedens_herd_immunity_strat
by mtmail 6y ago
The article got a lot of counter comments from people living in Sweden at https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/jyg8fr/covid19_swedens_herd_immunity_strategy_has_failed/ https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/jyg8fr/covid19_s...
This commenter puts "news" in quotes which makes be believe it's not the most reliable:
"i live in nz where this "news" business operates. A lack of research has unfortunately become the norm for their articles, along with many other news agencies here."
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"Uh..this is just not true. There has never been a strategy of herd immunity in Sweden.
Their source for this is "Dr Nick Talley [...] editor-in-chief of the Medical Journal of Australia". That is not a reliable source, especially to me as a swede who is following my governments statements and strategy.
I have never heard anyone in the government say there is any hopes of achieving herd immunity without a vaccine, let alone that this would be a strategy. Sounds like something thinks Boris Johnson is Swedish.
You can absolutely have issues with the Swedish way of tackling covid-19, and you can certainly say it's pretty much failed, but to claim that the "herd immunity strategy" has failed is just bad research."
- robbiep 6y agoIt’s hard to see why Talley was quoted, it seems like it might be a reprint perhaps of a daily mail article or something by the way of the reference to another UK newspaper in there? Dr Talley is widely regarded in Australia - there wouldn’t be a single Doctor in the country who doesn’t know his name (in a good way) but the quote from him in this article is a bit weird
- mikeywazowski 6y agoI also live in NZ and agree with that commenter's "news" quote. You're right - the NZ Herald isn't a reliable news source.
- amanzi 6y agoI agree with you, but in this case it looks like this article is a reprint from news.com.au - Rohan Smith is the author.