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Old Sep 16, 2020, 3:27 pm
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Death rates of sort for this virus situation get worse when the healthcare system is overwhelmed in ways.

The Swedish healthcare system was overwhelmed in ways by coronavirus cases during some time within the second quarter. And its being overwhelmed would have been even more extreme and publicly apparent if the Swedish system would have advised that Covid-19 patients in Swedish elderly living facilities should be moved to hospitals for care rather than to simply keep such infected elderly at the elderly living facilities and to put them on morphine as a near default measure. Sending the elderly infected to the hospitals? That wasn’t the official suggestion. It was more or less de facto palliative care without much, if any, material care intervention to support recovery of the sick in Swedish elderly living facilities.

A long time ago, a wise old Swede told me that Sweden is a great place for the young and old but not so great for those in their prime salaried earning years. This coronavirus situation in Sweden may highlight the need for that to be amended to factor in the way that the elderly may be left to die rather than treated in a hospital.

A window into this coronavirus non-treatment situation in Sweden was touched upon here:

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