A new Swedish coronavirus antibody study suggests the herd-immunity strategy isn't working

[still_one]

A new study suggested that only a small percentage of people in Sweden's capital, Stockholm, had developed coronavirus antibodies, casting doubt over whether the country's avoidance of strict lockdown measures is helping the population develop a significant level of immunity.

The study, based on 1,100 tests across Sweden and carried out by the country's public-health agency, found that just 7.3% of people in Stockholm had developed antibodies, Reuters reported on Wednesday.

Experts say populations can achieve so-called herd immunity to a virus when about 60% of people have caught it.

Tom Britton, a professor who helped develop the agency's forecasting model, acknowledged that the calculations may have been wrong.


https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-antibody-study-suggests-sweden-not-reaching-herd-immunity-2020-5

[obamanut2012]

1. professor who helped develop the agency's forecasting model, acknowledged that the calculations may

be wrong.

lolololol

Okay.

[uponit7771]

2. K&R, ... and Sweden's economy still get kicked in the teeth. The doc that pushed for this should be

... dis barred or something cause this was an easy tell based on the median Ro of this virus.

[House of Roberts]

3. What good is 'herd immunity,

if a huge portion of society ends up with permanent lung damage?

[still_one]

4. That is true, but based on this, they aren't even near herd immunity, so there experiment

seems to have failed on all measures

[LiberalArkie]

5. It may mean that herd immunity is not possible with this virus

[Initech]

6. No this virus must be eradicated through vaccines and treatment.

Or it just burns out on its own like the 1918 influenza strain did.

[LiberalArkie]

7. It may be like the cold virus, but on steroids.

[2naSalit]

8. Maybe it goes away.

There's nothing certain that we can say will be the eventual outcome.

With all these lung damaged recovered people, the idea of clean air becomes more important... it seems we may be entering a possible long lived depopulating event with this thing.