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Sweden has fewer cases than many European countries following unique, controversial approach to Coronavirus
Associated Press via KTLA ^ | 09/20/2020

Posted on 09/20/2020 10:46:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

A train pulls into the Odenplan subway station in central Stockholm, where morning commuters without masks get off or board before settling in to read their smartphones.

Whether on trains or trams, in supermarkets or shopping malls — places where face masks are commonly worn in much of the world — Swedes go about their lives without them.

When most of Europe locked down their populations early in the pandemic by closing schools, restaurants, gyms and even borders, Swedes kept enjoying many freedoms.

The relatively low-key strategy captured the world’s attention, but at the same time it coincided with a per capita death rate that was much higher than in other Nordic countries.

Now, as infection numbers surge again in much of Europe, the country of 10 million people has some of the lowest numbers of new coronavirus cases — and only 14 virus patients in intensive care.

Whether Sweden’s strategy is succeeding, however, is still very uncertain.

Its health authorities, and in particular chief epidemiologist Dr. Anders Tegnell, keep repeating a familiar warning: It’s too early to tell, and all countries are in a different phase of the pandemic.

That has not stopped a World Health Organization Europe official from saying the continent could learn broader lessons from Sweden that could help the virus battle elsewhere.

“We must recognize that Sweden, at the moment, has avoided the increase that has been seen in some of the other countries in western Europe,” WHO Europe’s senior emergency officer, Catherine Smallwood, said Thursday. “I think there are lessons for that. We will be very keen on working and hearing more from the Swedish approach.”

(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; europe; infections; lockdown; sweden; withoutmasks
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1 posted on 09/20/2020 10:46:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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SWEDEN TODAY: People walk on Stranvagen in Stockholm on Sept. 19, 2020, during the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic ( do you see anyone wearing a mask? )


3 posted on 09/20/2020 10:47:16 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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The death rate in Sweden is between 0 and 1 per day, and has been for over a month now


4 posted on 09/20/2020 10:49:51 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: SeekAndFind

It would seem that there should be a spike in Sweden’s GDP due to the shut down of the rest of the world.


5 posted on 09/20/2020 10:54:00 AM PDT by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives - ban Gun Free Zones)
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To: SeekAndFind; Grampa Dave

6 posted on 09/20/2020 10:56:28 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: SeekAndFind
Did authorities wait too long to limit access to nursing homes, where about half of the deaths occurred? Were they too slow to provide personal protective equipment to staff in those homes when shortcomings in the elderly care sector had long been known? Why did it take so long to set up wide-scale testing?

All those possible errors by Sweden only adds to the point that Sweden's overall herd immunity strategy works.

It wasn't the herd immunity party of their strategy that sucked.

7 posted on 09/20/2020 11:06:11 AM PDT by FreeReign
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Some were envious that Swedish businesses were not forced to close.

Then came shock as the virus ripped through the country’s nursing homes and hospices.

By mid-April, more than 100 deaths were reported each day in Sweden, while mortality rates were falling elsewhere in Europe.

So, basically, Sweden didn't obliterate their economy in a futile effort to save the lives of 85-year olds in nursing homes.

8 posted on 09/20/2020 11:09:44 AM PDT by Drew68
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You’re a chicken little, liberal live in fear mentality because the sky is falling.

Interesting. I thought you were more rational.

I think some subjects, infectious disease being one, are experienced more viscerally by some people, overriding objectivity and rationality.


9 posted on 09/20/2020 11:12:29 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: SeekAndFind

Screw masks. Hug people. This is a grand scheme to create fear

And division

Don’t fear this virus or any bug. Kill them


10 posted on 09/20/2020 11:16:14 AM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guv-mint you get is the Trump winning express ! Yea haw ! Trump Pence II! Save America again)
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RE: You’re a chicken little, liberal live in fear mentality because the sky is falling.

What did I say in this thread to merit this description?


11 posted on 09/20/2020 11:18:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: george76

Great point,
Yup
I downloaded it.


12 posted on 09/20/2020 11:24:19 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (TRUMP, the Other guy lives in a Basement!)
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To: george76

Perfect.


13 posted on 09/20/2020 11:26:29 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: SeekAndFind
This picture is worth way more than a thousand words! Ditch that mask, people. You’re not saving yourself or anyone else. 11/03/20 🇺🇸👍
14 posted on 09/20/2020 11:28:00 AM PDT by Walrus (I do not consent)
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To: ifinnegan

Did you, maybe, not read the article?


15 posted on 09/20/2020 11:28:32 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: Walrus

Forget where I saw it, but read a phrase awhile back that has stuck with me. “We are being conditioned to believe freedom is selfish and tyranny is noble.”


16 posted on 09/20/2020 11:38:54 AM PDT by teevolt
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“Did you, maybe, not read the article?”

Explain.


17 posted on 09/20/2020 11:39:41 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sweden has more foods fortified with vitamin D than most other countries.


18 posted on 09/20/2020 11:40:44 AM PDT by MulberryDraw (No Communista!)
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Post 2.


19 posted on 09/20/2020 11:42:22 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: MulberryDraw

They also tend to spend a lot of time outdoors.


20 posted on 09/20/2020 11:43:06 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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