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Source: The Guardian
Last week, as figures released by the Public Health Agency of Sweden indicated that 1,333 people had now died of coronavirus, the countrys normally unflappable state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell admitted that the situation in care homes was worrying.
Its advice to the care workers and nurses looking after older people such as Bondessons 69-year-old mother is that they should not wear protective masks or use other protective equipment unless they are dealing with a resident in the home they have reason to suspect is infected.
The worst thing is that it is us, the staff, who are taking the infection in to the elderly, complained one nurse to Swedish public broadcaster SVT. Its unbelievable that more of them havent been infected. Its a scandal.
Tegnells colleague AnnaSara Carnahan on Friday told Sveriges Radio that the number of deaths reported from old peoples homes was probably an underestimate, as regional health infectious diseases units were reporting that many elderly who died were not being tested.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/19/anger-in-sweden-as-elderly-pay-price-for-coronavirus-strategy
They act like there is no such thing as asymptomatic spread. Restaurants and bars are open and the nursing home staff are not wearing PPE to protect the patients. They might as well just wheel the elderly into the bars and skip the middleman.
Unbelievable.