No lockdowns, but Sweden seems to have controlled Covid

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/29/world/europe/sweden-coronavirus-strategy.html

by samdung • 6 years ago

10 2 6 years ago

tertiary• 6 years ago

I'm still surprised at how many "Sweden is a success!" stories keep showing up on HN.

The country had TEN TIMES the per capita death rate of its neighbors (IE the countries you'd conpare it to if you want to control for everything except the pandemic response). It also still has the highest unemployment rate of all the Nordic countries and its infected count is rising currently.

Not only that, but Sweden is already a country of "lonely conformists" and have been keeping six feet away from their neighbors long before the pandemic. They would have been the ones where a light lockdown was appropriate and it still didn't give good outcomes.

just-juan-post• 6 years ago

I'm still surprised at the amount of fear floating around out there.

Mike Ryan of the WHO says there's about 750 million cases of the virus active right now [1].

The WHO's web site says 1 million have died.

That means the IFR is 0.13%

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BonX0ZiMQIY&feature=youtu.be...

No lockdowns, but Sweden seems to have controlled Covid

Related Stories