Posted on 08/01/2021 8:08:40 AM PDT by Enlightened1
As the CDC urges Americans to mask up against the Delta variant, Sweden’s chief epidemiologist has argued that more data is needed about the strain’s infectiousness. His mask-free nation is hovering at zero Covid deaths per day.
Anders Tegnell said on Friday that there was “a lot we do not know” about Delta and cautioned against drawing “far-reaching conclusions” about the coronavirus strain. He noted that the variant had been circulating in Sweden “for quite some time” with little effect, particularly in high-risk settings such as nursing homes.
His comments were made in response to newly released data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggesting the Delta strain is more transmissible and could potentially cause more severe illness. The New York Times and other media outlets ran stories reporting that the CDC now believes the Delta variant is as contagious as chickenpox – but this comparison didn’t seem to impress Tegnell.
“It is difficult to say how contagious Delta is, [as] when it comes to chickenpox, we have been able to follow the disease for several years. The infectivity [of Delta] seems to be very uneven – in some cases, one person infects a hundred people, then we have other occasions when an infected person does not infect anyone at all,” he told Sweden’s Aftonbladet.
In separate remarks, he pointed to the fact that one-third of the country’s municipalities reported zero new Covid cases over the past week. At the same time, there was an uptick in cases among young people in Stockholm and other large cities.
And while US health authorities are pressing Americans in “high transmission” areas to mask up, Sweden dropped its last remaining mask recommendation – related to public transport – on July 1. While Sweden’s public health agency has supported measures such as social distancing and remote working, it has no recommendations for the use of face coverings in public spaces.
Reviled by the media for refusing to impose harsh lockdowns, Sweden’s less draconian approach to the health crisis appears to be paying off: The Scandinavian nation has recorded a total of eight Covid-linked deaths so far this month, an average of 0.25 deaths per day. While it’s possible this number will increase due to reporting lags, deaths have undoubtedly plummeted over the past several months. On June 4, Sweden reported 13 deaths – more than the entire month of July.
Daily hospitalizations have also hovered near zero in July: On most days this month, the country saw between 0-2 Covid-cases requiring hospital treatment. At the same time, daily cases have fallen sharply since April.
Despite the promising developments, Tegnell warned against getting too comfortable. He stressed on Friday that Sweden was still in a pandemic and urged his countrymen, especially those in younger age groups, to get vaccinated.
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Warns against far reaching conclusions about delta....
Woopsie doodle, too late! The US has gone full on moron over the delta virus in liberal states
CDC,”you gonna believe me or you lying eyes?”
Sweden had masks on buses...that was it...schools we never closed...except a couple of weeks in high school...
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Schools were not closed, restaurants were not closed, cinemas weren’t closed, offices were not closed and Sweden still did much better than other most European countries.
For that date I also computed the average death rate for the five adjacent states in the NE megalopolis (MA, NJ, NY, RI, CT) and it was 2,560. Most Swedes live in the southwest, which means it is also highly urbanized. Sweden’s death rate of 1,365.43 is about half for a similar population density.
For 2016 you can also note that collectively the five states had one Republican governor and ten Republicans in the Congress. Maybe this should be considered a Democrat disease?
Sweden is letting it’s citizens immune systems sample covid in small doses frequently, resulting in better herd immunity over time.
e left are trying, and likely will succeed with their low info supporters, to convince them that this is a republican pandemic. They are constantly going after DeSantis, Texas, Mississippi, and any other states that refused to give in to fear. The left are fz.sely claiming daily that cases are surging In Those states compare to other states
Expecting a politician to avoid drawing far-reaching conclusions about something they know next to nothing about is about as likely as leaving an open bottle of whiskey with six teenage boys on their own and expecting no one to touch.
The ventilators are the modern day guillotine. About 90% of the people that go on to the ventilators die.
By the way, the people that are spreading the “delta variant” are “vaccinated”. The jab is the “delta variant”. That is why the CDC is telling the vaccinated they have to wear mask up again.
The people unvaccinated have immunity by now a year and half later. Viruses are seasonal. Did you forget they have a 99.97% chance of surviving if they got it? The “delta” version is the Covid 19 out of India. Guess what that virus is long gone unless you are jabbed?
Oh to get all the positives is simply by turning up the PCR cycles from 36 to 45. That is what happened. It was 36 previously over the Summer. That’s why positives were low. Keep in mind the PCR inventor said it should never be over 17.
Oh and the CDC is getting rid of the PCR tests by the end of the year because all it does it tell you the symptoms. It does not tell you the difference between Covid and the Flu.
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