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The problem is in the US hospitals get overloaded quite easily. Our healthcare is not as robust as Sweden's, so that option hasn't been able to be on the table.
by proverbialbunny 6y ago
The problem is in the US hospitals get overloaded quite easily. Our healthcare is not as robust as Sweden's, so that option hasn't been able to be on the table.
Keep in mind the surge we are seeing right now is from Thanksgiving. It is most likely going to get worse.
- jussij 6y agoWhile Sweden did adopt the 'do nothing' approach, their results so far have hardly been a success story. Currently Swedish deaths sit at 837 deaths per million: https://epidemic-stats.com/coronavirus/sweden https://epidemic-stats.com/coronavirus/sweden By comparison consider Sweden's neighbors. Norway currently sits at 80 deaths per million: https://epidemic-stats.com/coronavirus/norway https://epidemic-stats.com/coronavirus/norway Finland currently sits at 99 deaths per million: https://epidemic-stats.com/coronavirus/finland https://epidemic-stats.com/coronavirus/finland What is more troubling for Sweden is their current daily death rate is also very much higher than both Norway and Finland. So if the aim was to try an reduce the number of citizens dying from Covid 19 then based on those figures Sweden's 'do nothing' approach has failed.
- proverbialbunny 6y agoMy point was, if the US adopted that policy it would be far worse.