what about Sweden? High acceptance of Pfizer vaccine, high compliance with stay at home/social distancing, travel/entry restrictions and legal penalties for infecting others:
” At the end of December 2022, 86.4 per cent of the population aged 12 or older had been vaccinated with at least two doses. Of the population aged 18 or older, 66.6 per cent had been vaccinated with three doses. Of the population aged 65 or above, 81.4 per cent had been vaccinated with four doses.
According to the Public Health Agency of Sweden (Folkhälsomyndigheten), a high level of vaccine coverage has been the most important condition for restrictions to be removed.
Certain advice and recommendations are still in place:
Everyone aged 12 and older should be vaccinated against Covid-19.
Stay home and avoid contact with others if you have symptoms that may be Covid-19.
Adults who have not been vaccinated should avoid congestion and large crowds indoors.
https://sweden.se/life/society/sweden-and-corona-in-brief
I’m a firm believer in Social Distancing, just not the 6 ft kind.
From my front door to the mailbox it is greater than 1/20 mile [264 ft.]
So I’m currently a believer in 264 ft. as a good social distance. Especially being outside. Seems to be working.
I read that Puerto Rico has a high vaccination rate. They also have a very low 1,657 deaths per 1,000,000 population. Utah has a slightly better 1,627 deaths per 1,000,000 population, with Vermont, 1,412, and Hawaii, 1,250.
Puerto Rico boasts a 95% of the population receiving at least one dose of the vaccine – and nearly 84% fully vaccinated. I wish that word, “vaccine hesitancy,” was a pronoun not to be considered.
Excess deaths?