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Whoops: The COVID-19-associated mortality rates per 100,000 person-weeks during the first wave of the pandemic were 0.3 in Norway and 2.9 in Sweden https://pubm

• logifail 5y ago
  > during the first wave Are there many countries which have only had one wave of Covid? May 2020, Anders Tegnell [Sweden’s state epidemiologist] said Covid was a virus "we're going to have to live with for a very long time"[0] November 2021, he said "Now, we’re two years into this and Sweden doesn’t really stand out. We’re not the best, but we’re definitely not the worst. That’s what I hear now: how much good did all these draconian [measures] do for anybody?"[1] [0] https://www.ft.com/content/a2b4c18c-a5e8-4edc-8047-ade4a82a548d https://www.ft.com/content/a2b4c18c-a5e8-4edc-8047-ade4a82a5... [1] https://www.ft.com/content/0c07de5f-e852-4c23-823b-5f8f7d18ebef https://www.ft.com/content/0c07de5f-e852-4c23-823b-5f8f7d18e...
• traveler01 5y ago
  And pretty much in the end they have basically same death rates as other countries. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-europe-mortality-idUSKBN2BG1R9 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-europe... Also, Portugal has higher death rates than Sweden. Same population. What can we take from this? Population density in stric geographical zones don't help at all in pandemics, and your country should have a good healthcare system ready to take these kind of pandemic situations. Also, let's see how useless those measures are when you start measuring the weight of the economic disaster that's coming up.