{"id":2675,"date":"2020-05-06T23:54:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T23:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2675"},"modified":"2020-05-06T23:54:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T23:54:29","slug":"has-sweden-found-the-best-response-to-the-coronavirus-its-death-rate-suggests-it-hasnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2675","title":{"rendered":"Has Sweden found the best response to the coronavirus? Its death rate suggests it hasn\u2019t."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“using the Our World in Data<\/a> website\u2019s coronavirus statistics, helps put Sweden\u2019s situation in perspective. It compares countries\u2019 rates of coronavirus deaths per 1 million people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the chart shows, Sweden is actually faring worse than other Scandinavian nations and even worse than the United States, which has the highest number of confirmed total cases in the world.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Following the advice of the country\u2019s chief epidemiologist, Anders Tegnell<\/a>, the Swedish government chose not to impose strict lockdowns, curfews, or major border closings because the government felt it would hurt the economy and would only push the crisis further down the road.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“while experts say the vast majority of Swedes followed the government\u2019s social distancing guidelines and voluntarily stayed home, those who continued to drink at bars and shop at stores likely spread the disease around.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Sweden\u2019s public health officials now admit: That \u201cmore than 26 percent of the 2 million inhabitants of Stockholm will have been infected by May 1.\u201d”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Where Sweden does compare favorably to the US is the country\u2019s death rate when compared to New York City\u2019s (not the whole US). About 12,000 reported deaths as of April 28 in a city of 8 million is surely worse than 2,300 deaths in a country of 10 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there are three main reasons why the Big Apple would be worse off than the entire country of Sweden, experts say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first is population density: New York City has more than 38,000 people per square kilometer<\/a>, while Sweden has just 25 people<\/a> \u2014 meaning it\u2019s harder to socially distance in New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second, some hospitals in New York City were overwhelmed while Sweden still has about 250 hospital beds unoccupied<\/a>. There are indications, though, that the hospital surge in New York City is declining<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, there is significantly more international travel to New York City<\/a> than there is to Sweden<\/a>, which means there were more opportunities for people from countries suffering from severe outbreaks to spread the virus to the city than to the European country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But when zooming out, it\u2019s clear that Sweden as a whole is worse off than the US as a whole. That could, of course, change down the line, but any current arguments that Sweden got its outbreak response right are premature at best and dangerous at worst.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/4\/28\/21240381\/coronavirus-sweden-death-rate-cases-new-york<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“using the Our World in Data website\u2019s coronavirus statistics, helps put Sweden\u2019s situation in perspective. It compares countries\u2019 rates of coronavirus deaths per 1 million people.
\nAs the chart shows, Sweden is actually faring worse than other Scandinavian nations and even worse than the United States, which has the highest number of confirmed total cases in the world.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Following the advice of the country\u2019s chief epidemiologist, Anders Tegnell, the Swedish government chose not to impose strict lockdowns, curfews, or major border closings because the government felt it would hurt the economy and would only push the crisis further down the road.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“while experts say the vast majority of Swedes followed the government\u2019s social distancing guidelines and voluntarily stayed home, those who continued to drink at bars and shop at stores likely spread the disease around.” <\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Sweden\u2019s public health officials now admit: That \u201cmore than 26 percent of the 2 million inhabitants of Stockholm will have been infected by May 1.\u201d”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Where Sweden does compare favorably to the US is the country\u2019s death rate when compared to New York City\u2019s (not the whole US). About 12,000 reported deaths as of April 28 in a city of 8 million is surely worse than 2,300 deaths in a country of 10 million.<\/p>\n

But there are three main reasons why the Big Apple would be worse off than the entire country of Sweden, experts say.<\/p>\n

The first is population density: New York City has more than 38,000 people per square kilometer, while Sweden has just 25 people \u2014 meaning it\u2019s harder to socially distance in New York.<\/p>\n

Second, some hospitals in New York City were overwhelmed while Sweden still has about 250 hospital beds unoccupied. There are indications, though, that the hospital surge in New York City is declining.<\/p>\n

Finally, there is significantly more international travel to New York City than there is to Sweden, which means there were more opportunities for people from countries suffering from severe outbreaks to spread the virus to the city than to the European country.<\/p>\n

But when zooming out, it\u2019s clear that Sweden as a whole is worse off than the US as a whole. That could, of course, change down the line, but any current arguments that Sweden got its outbreak response right are premature at best and dangerous at worst.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[588,409,483,53,300,678,465],"class_list":["post-2675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-corona","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-deaths","tag-statistics","tag-stats","tag-sweden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2676,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675\/revisions\/2676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}