Coronavirus Live News: Sweden Reports Its Highest Number Of New Cases Yet

[appalachiablue]

Source: The Guardian

Sweden reports its highest number of new cases yet.

Sweden reported 812 new confirmed cases of coronavirus, the highest number of new cases yet reported, bringing the total number of infections so far in the country to 17,567.

On Friday, the country also reported 131 new deaths from Covid-19, taking the total death toll in the country to 2,152, according to data published by its public health authority.

So far, 1,256 patients have had cases serious enough for them to be treated in intensive care.


Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/apr/24/coronavirus-death-toll-trump-china-live-news-us-passes-480bn-relief-bill-as-ramadan-restrictions-are-imposed-indonesia?page=with:block-5ea2f7ed8f08fa2bdcb1acfa#block-5ea2f7ed8f08fa2bdcb1acfa

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Sweden essentially has been following the 'herd immunity' plan so far.

[AtheistCrusader]

1. Not following; hoping.

We don't KNOW if this CAN be controlled with herd immunity.

They're going to find out I guess, but I think it'll take weeks longer than they expect, and will cost them a lot more lives than they are expecting.

Potentially all for naught, depending on re-infection rates.

[appalachiablue]

5. Time will tell how effective Sweden's outlier path is, after all

Nature, April 21, 2020..Sweden didn’t go into lockdown or impose strict social-distancing policies. Instead, it rolled out voluntary, ‘trust-based’ measures: it advised older people to avoid social contact and recommended that people work from home, wash their hands regularly and avoid non-essential travel. But borders and schools for under-16s remain open — as do many businesses, including restaurants and bars.

The approach has sharp critics. Among them are 22 high-profile scientists who last week wrote in the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter that the public-health authorities had failed, and urged politicians to step in with stricter measures. They point to the high number of coronavirus deaths in elder-care homes and Sweden’s overall fatality rate, which is higher than that of its Nordic neighbours — 131 per million people, compared with 55 per million in Denmark and 14 per million in Finland, which have adopted lockdowns...https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01098-x

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. It hasn't worked for Japan. Japan just instituted emergency measures. . . . nt

[appalachiablue]

10. Thanks for the update, Japan's next phase will be of interest

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. Latest on point article I could find, 16th April:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52313807

[jimfields33]

2. This is going to be a case study for colleges in the field of virus'

It’s a really strange situation. They will be the only nation on earth not effected economically to the virus. But they have more deaths then neighboring countries but way less then Italy, Netherlands and Belgium to name a few. I’m sure many thesis’s will be written about it too.

[LisaL]

4. Italy shut down much too late

Which is presumably why their death rate is so high. Their medical system was already overwhelmed when they finally shut down.

[appalachiablue]

6. It will be a case study, their methods so far are controversial esp.

the large no. of elders lost

[AtheistCrusader]

13. Losing a generation will have economic consequences.

[lagomorph777]

14. Hospitalizing huge numbers also has economic consequences.

Also, people on sick leave has economic consequences.

[Ford_Prefect]

3. Its a shame they persist in a largely disproven darwinisitic approach. Natural selection had

nothing to do with the release or spread of COVID-17.

[appalachiablue]

8. And the Nordic nations weren't immune from eugenics madness

well into the 20th c. like the US, Britain and more

[DrToast]

7. For comparison

Their number of deaths would be equal to about 70,000 Americans when you adjust for population.

That’s not good but so far it hasn’t been a catastrophe some feared. But.... that could still happen.

[Ford_Prefect]

11. So far they seem no more aware of the variability of symptoms than we are...

And are likely under-reporting deaths, infection rates, as well as missing key dimensions to the spread pattern.