Sweden has only 13 coronavirus patients in intensive care and has averaged one death in the last 10 days despite avoiding lockdowns.
- Sweden compares 80 patients on a ventilator, with 843 in a UK hospital
- In addition, the UK averaged over..3 deaths per day over the same period compared to the country’s one-day deaths during the last 10 years.
- It comes despite claims that Sweden’s “mob immunity” strategy is reckless.
There are only 13 patients in intensive care in Sweden and have suffered an average of one death per day during the last 10 despite avoiding lockdowns.
Stockholm’s strategy – backed by Downing Street – once backed by Downing Street – was criticized as reckless in allowing the disease to spread to the population, but data further accelerated the decision.
Sweden (population 1 million) has 1 patient in intensive care, compared to 3,843 patients in the United Kingdom (population 66 million), of whom ven0 patients are on ventilators.
In addition, Sweden has had an average of one death per day over the last 10 years, compared to 9.3 deaths per day in the UK over the same period.
Anders Tagnell, the brains behind Sweden’s coronavirus strategy, is considered controversial by many of his academic colleagues in Europe but is considered a hero in Sweden.
Kovid-19 has caused 5,838 deaths in the country – the fifth highest per capita rate in Europe – but the number of new infections has been declining since June.
On Wednesday, Sweden had fewer deaths per million than the UK – 0.06 – whereas Boris Johnson’s lockdown was 0.17 against ease.
Epidemiologist John Carlson, who is also the director of the Swedish Public Health Agency, told the Times: ‘Our strategy was consistent and sustainable.
‘We have less risk of this [the virus] Spread than other countries. ‘
Stockholm officials argued at the start of the epidemic that the virus would present a long-term challenge and that it would be more beneficial for people to move forward in their daily business and thereby develop immunity.
People were urged to work from home wherever possible but schools, bars and restaurants remained largely open, and people were allowed to walk from each other. When asked to stay away, Sweden did not ask to wear a mask to the store or on the transport.
Initially, scientists considered this approach irrational, with some predicting that 180,000 people in a population of 10.2 million would die as a result.
More deaths have been reported in Belgium, the UK, Spain and Italy than in Sweden alone, with a total of 5,838 showing how such an estimate could be overturned if the summer followed.
Only one person can be seen wearing a mask, a Swedish man uing for a boat ride in Stockholm in July
The graph shows how the number of new coronavirus deaths per million people in Sweden and the UK has changed
Indeed, this week, only seven people have died as a result of the coronavirus.
Its progress can be further highlighted by comparing it to the wayway, one of the first in the room to introduce a lockdown, which now has fewer cases per capita than its neighbor.
Similarly, Denmark also imposed strict restrictions, although initially controlling the worst case scenario of the virus, its infection rate was found to be higher than that seen in Sweden.
The graph shows how the number of cases per million people compares in Norway, Denmark and Sweden
Other Scandinavian countries have largely reopened Sweden’s borders, but the growing number of cases in Norway means some quarantine measures have been re-established.
With Boris Johnson’s own ‘moonshot’ set in the UK under scrutiny, the Swedish government has invested much more resources in testing, previously limiting it to those at risk and those working on the front lines.
As a result, it now triples the amount of daily tests it did three months ago, providing anyone with obvious symptoms, while a system for detecting and checking the contacts of each infected person also appears to be working.
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