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Sweden is also suggesting that if you're vaccinated you do not need to get tested. "If you are vaccinated, you do not generally need to get tested when you expe
by rbjorklin 5y ago
Sweden is also suggesting that if you're vaccinated you do not need to get tested.
"If you are vaccinated, you do not generally need to get tested when you experience symptoms." [1]
With ~69% [2] of the population fully vaccinated that is definitely going to skew the numbers a bit.
1. https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/the-public-health-agency-of-sweden/communicable-disease-control/covid-19/covid-19-testing/ https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/the-public-health-agency...
2. https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2020-03-01..latest&facet=none&pickerSort=asc&pickerMetric=location&Metric=People+fully+vaccinated&Interval=7-day+rolling+average&Relative+to+Population=true&Align+outbreaks=false&country=~SWE https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
- cbnlakl 5y agoThe influence of different testing rates can be avoided by looking at the number of fatalities. Sweden looks much better now than Austria and the overall picture is the same: https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2020-03-01..latest&facet=none&pickerSort=asc&pickerMetric=location&Metric=Confirmed+deaths&Interval=7-day+rolling+average&Relative+to+Population=true&Align+outbreaks=false&country=SWE~AUT https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor... Looking at this, I also do not understand why Austria's ICUs are overloaded now but not in November 2020.
- pbaka 5y agoMaybe it's like France or Switzerland. France had 14'000 ICU beds in 2020 (down from 24'000 some years ago). They cut it by half after summer 2020 because (quoting the minister of health) : "hospitalized people need to social-distance". In Switzerland, the two hospitals which were overwhelmed (Geneva fur sure and think but am not sure Aarau), did the same by cutting ICU personnel in two last spring...