We wont know till a year from now. They are gambling that they reach herd immunity early while the rest of the nations drag this out they could end up with the same overall deaths without the economic impact.IrishTxAggie said:https://www.newsweek.com/sweden-coronavirus-rate-1501250Heisenberg01 said:
Sweden has 10 times the deaths as the countries that surround it. Not sure it has been a rousing success case.Quote:
"At least 50 percent of our death toll is within elderly homes and we have a hard time understanding how a lockdown would stop the introduction of disease," Anders Tegnell, the chief state epidemiologist at Sweden's public health agency, told the BBC's Radio Four's Today program last week.
The decision to not issue a lockdown "worked in some aspects because our health system has been able to cope," he noted.Quote:
Tegnell also claimed last week that up to 20 percent of residents in the Swedish capital, Stockholm, have been infected with the virus, noting "We believe that we have an immunity level, if I remember rightly, somewhere between 15-20 percent of the population in Stockholm," he told CNBC.
"This is not complete herd immunity but it will definitely affect the reproduction rate and slow down the spread (of a second wave)," he said.
Derail over, back to the markets.
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