Sweden sees jump in coronavirus
deaths with less restrictive
guidelines under scrutiny
Fox News,
by
Frank Miles
Original Article
Posted By: DVC,
4/20/2020 2:50:56 AM
Sweden is seeing an unsettling rise in coronavirus deaths, as comparatively lax restrictions across the country are coming under scrutiny.
The Nordic country had reported 1,540 deaths tied to the coronavirus pandemic, an increase of 29 from Saturday. Last week, the Public Health Agency of Sweden said 1,333 people had died of COVID-19.
Sweden’s figures are considerably more than in the rest of Scandinavia. While its population of over 10 million nearly doubles those of Denmark, Norway and Finland individually, its COVID-19 death toll was up to 17 times higher than those countries, according to reports.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Catherine 4/20/2020 2:58:31 AM (No. 385081)
I think maybe age may be a factor in some of these smaller European countries. Like Italy, for example, they have way more older people than young ones. And consider that China's deaths suddenly jumped 50% overnight. I question a lot of these numbers.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
sanspeur 4/20/2020 3:04:55 AM (No. 385083)
not sure this is accurate re advising those over 70 to quarantine . My Swedish relative said those over 60 are staying in .and take doing it scrupulously.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
proximo 4/20/2020 5:49:42 AM (No. 385111)
Absent a vaccine, the Swedish strategy will show benefits next fall when the second wave comes and this starts all over again. With herd immunity, you have a lot less hosts to carry the virus to those most threatened.
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Oh shut up with the ghoulish death counts! Let's see death counts of cancer, heart disease, accidents, murder... Let's go ALL IN on ghoulish... you sick media idiots!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 4/20/2020 8:20:15 AM (No. 385194)
Agree with #4. The media is half the problem, including FOX,
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
JackBurton 4/20/2020 8:24:25 AM (No. 385198)
Different take. Sweden challenged the 'popular' thinking... the idea that you had to be saved from yourself and big government rules could do it. Remember how we heard story after story about how they were actually doing as well as lock down countries? What changed.
People started to want to end the lock down and cited Sweden. Couldn't have that. So now we get story after story about what a mistake Sweden has made. Haven't we seen this kind of thing before?
Wake up and smell the Lutefisk.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
msjena 4/20/2020 9:02:25 AM (No. 385244)
The strategy can't be properly assessed until the virus dies down. Flattening the curve, ie, lockdown, doesn't promise to decrease infections/death, only to do it over a longer period so that that hospitals don't get overwhelmed.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
proximo 4/20/2020 9:37:44 AM (No. 385298)
Anyone reading down this far should go read the article that follows this one in today's list. What the Swedes are doing is exactly what the Trump Admin was recommending America do. Practice social distancing, stay home if you are sick or particularly vulnerable, wash your hands, etc. What they aren't doing is locking down their populace as large swaths of the US have done. As we've learned, that's a "cure" that is worse than the disease.
It was Democrat governors who almost in lockstep imposed the lockdowns. Then their flying monkey cohorts in the media began hectoring Republican governors until, in places, they begrudgingly had to follow along, at least partially. Whether the Democrats did this because they are snowflakes or the destruction of our economy was their goal along doesn't really matter. The damange has been done and they will now spend every waking moment until November blaming Trump for everything.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/20/2020 9:53:23 AM (No. 385326)
.001 percent is nothing. More than that were probably stabbed by muslims or killed in car crashes. Sweden made the correct decision
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/20/2020 10:32:11 AM (No. 385383)
If we’re going to talk age, we should use some facts. Here’s a start. I am not seeing that Italy or Sweden are countries where everyone is old…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_median_age
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 4/20/2020 11:26:26 AM (No. 385487)
#10, how many of the "population of Italy" don't speak fluent Italian and have only moved there in the last decade or so?
I mean it as an actual question. I lived in Italy in the 60s and early 70s, visited a couple of years ago. Never saw a single black person the first time, none. Not the case now. I think that they have a lot of illegals pouring in, may account for the age distribution. But, maybe not. I don't live there any more, no friends
there to ask.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
TXknitter 4/20/2020 1:16:26 PM (No. 385665)
I think the media’s desperation to find numbers, models and questionable hearsay to declare Sweden’s decision a disaster is pretty obvious. I think #3 is absolutely right.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 4/20/2020 1:17:58 PM (No. 385667)
#10, I just remembered that there are apparently very large numbers of Chinese in northern Italy now, working in the factories. How many more are there throughout the country working, and filling in all the slots that the Italians never filled by having children?
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Not looking like such a good strategy so far. Sweden has 152 deaths per million people. USA has 123 per million. Denmark has 61 per million, Norway 30 per million.