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On Monday, 509 people received intensive care for covid-19 in Sweden. Compared to last Thursday, there is a decrease with more than 40 patients, since 550 were admitted to VAT.
Stockholm is a declining part of all intensive care cases in the country. There are now around a third of Sweden’s intensive care patients in Stockolm, two weeks ago the same proportion was half.
Instead, they are the others the metropolitan regions, Skåne and Västra Götaland, which are on the rise. State epidemiologist Anders Tegnell believes this is where one can expect the spread of the infection to increase, while the smaller regions of the country could possibly improve.
– Looking internationally, the most widespread distribution has been in densely populated regions, so you can expect Västra Götaland and Skåne to potentially spread the most in the future, he says.
But even though the spread of the infection is not believed to be as severe in more sparsely populated areas, care in the regions may end in a tense position.
– Most regions of the country are quite small, and when there are some cases, they can mean a lot to them, says Anders Tegnell.
The parameters that The main objective in evaluating the spread of infection is deaths, which tested positive in intensive care cases. Anders Tegnell believes that the number of people who have been intensively cared for is a good measure of what the country’s development looks like.
– We have a good control of that number and it is also relatively constant. It is easily measurable and does not have massive darkness. Therefore, it works very well compared to many others and, moreover, it is much faster than deaths, for example, he says.
A total of 2,769 people in Sweden have died in covid-19 and so far 22,721 cases of the disease have been confirmed. Throughout the epidemic, 1,572 people have needed intensive care, according to the Public Health Authority.
As the number of intensive care is decreasing more in Stockholm than in other regions, the national number of people currently receiving care is also lower. But that doesn’t mean the difficult time for medical care is past, Anders Tegnell emphasizes.
– It does not mean that we do not have a health burden, but we do see a certain reduction, he says.
