How bad is covid really? (A Swedish doctor’s perspective)

Two of my co-workers had Covid back in July. One tested positive July 5, the other one July 6. During their illness their husbands contracted it as well. They both said it was the sickest either one of them had ever been. Interesting thing was their symptoms were sometimes similar, but not all. One had loss of taste/smell; diarrhea; feeling of weakness; cough; and low grade fever for a couple of days. The other one had chest pains, bad cough, and low grade fever for over 20 days. They both said their husbands’ symptoms were worse than theirs.

You did not read carefully.

The Swedish doctor is talking about case fatality rates.

The total estimated number of infections in Sweden is in the range of 11%-12% of the population - about 1.2 million.

That is where the 0.5% CFR (1 in 200) comes from.

Downplaying the seriousness of Covid-19 does no one any favors. While it might help to fuel conspiracy theories, all it tangibly accomplishes is to make people complacent. And complacency leads to failure to take the appropriate measures to stop the spread, which in turn has brought us to this situation where we are *still* dealing with this pandemic.

And overhyping the seriousness of it helps even less. That's why we have $3T bills being passed by the House, and $2T bills being put into law, and now Presidents putting out even more executive orders that aren't close to Constitutional. But, it's ok because it "helps" and it comes from our side...

Dallas County is currently a "hotspot" for the virus, and they have ~50M "cases" out of 2.6MM people. Less than 2%, and that's cumulative since March. And includes every single false positive, fake positive, and repeat customers. After you subtract out recovered people, and figure the majority of current positives are staying at home / in the hospital, that leaves the random guy at the grocery store having a what, .001% chance of having it? With a small chance of you even catching it from him, if you magically find the guy that does have it and is contagious?

Same my two coworkers experienced, yet we are still wasting scarece test materials on people with a sore throat n no other sx. And, they are negative. Happens every flu season. Scardy cats demand to be tested multiple times abusing the system and using up scarce resources
. Every year. Same flippin idiots. In the lab we just think they should be charged a fee of 500 cash the next time they come in for being an idiot.
We have lives to save. You dont need a test if you have covid.. its pretty harsh, even for healthy people. The asymptomatic myth has been dismissed by the data.

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