Coronavirus in Sweden
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However, if you take into account that 1H 2020 had one more day than 1H 2015, you actually get a slightly lower figure for 2020 compared to 2015.
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That's correct, but look at it in context: Between March-June, they only tested people that were seriously ill. I was sick in May, and I'm pretty sure that it was covid-19, and I wanted to get tested but couldn't. From the middle of June, everybody who's sick or feeling bad could get tested. So, the apparent reason why there's a decrease in testing is that less people are sick, and less people want to get tested.
It's just that the SCB file I've been using starts on 1 January 2015. I would have to dig deeper to find the numbers for 2014, and I'm not prepared to spend time on doing that at the moment.
However, if you take into account that 1H 2020 had one more day than 1H 2015, you actually get a slightly lower figure for 2020 compared to 2015.
It's just that the SCB file I've been using starts on 1 January 2015. I would have to dig deeper to find the numbers for 2014, and I'm not prepared to spend time on doing that at the moment.
However, if you take into account that 1H 2020 had one more day than 1H 2015, you actually get a slightly lower figure for 2020 compared to 2015.
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It regularly comes up when he has to argue in favour off (defend) his approach in foreign media. I don't know if it is in his official strategy, but it is certainly in his defense of the strategy.
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Thanks. I got out in time, on March 5 nonstop. Just a handful of cases in the news by then. That was the Thursday before the Monday you wrote "CPH was a ghost town of sorts. I remember some staff was wearing masks at LAX. Things quickly escalated from there.
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At least one class of pre-teen school kids in a part of Malmo had 40+% of the class out sick today. I asked an old, retired teacher in Sweden if she had ever had such level of sickness absences in August classes, and her response was she had never seen this happen before with Swedish students in August.
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He discusses it with American and other anglophone countries journalists. I would say its part of his official strategy, even as hes not open and honest about acknowledging that it is what it is.
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At least one class of pre-teen school kids in a part of Malmo had 40+% of the class out sick today. I asked an old, retired teacher in Sweden if she had ever had such level of sickness absences in August classes, and her response was she had never seen this happen before with Swedish students in August.
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I wonder what the explanation is for so many of one class's students -- from one of the nicer areas of Malmo -- being sick from school all at once at this time of year. The municipality and school authorities haven't said anything about it publicly as far as I know. And I doubt the public silence so far has anything to do with privacy, as schools and even preschools aren't all that shy about informing the classes/groups/parents when they've had a "winter vomit" outbreak or hair-lice outbreak at the facilities. The symptoms exhibited are very much in keeping what would be expected from COVID-19 hits or some other respiratory/vascular infection.
I am curious about the level of reliability of the more common Covid-19 tests given in Sweden and how the reliability of the Swedish testing compares to that of the testing being done in the neighboring areas. Is there any study that compares the reliability of Swedish testing results to the reliability of its neighbors' testing results?
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Trains between Malmo and Lund are cancelled for something like a week. And the passengers for this traffic will instead be packed -- and I mean really packed at times -- into buses. That will making social distancing even way harder than usual and increase the time commuters are in very close proximity to each other.
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At least one class of pre-teen school kids in a part of Malmo had 40+% of the class out sick today. I asked an old, retired teacher in Sweden if she had ever had such level of sickness absences in August classes, and her response was she had never seen this happen before with Swedish students in August.
Seriously though, about two weeks ago nearly every kid in our kids friend circle had some kind of summer viral fever/flu (light fever for a few days, running nose, sore thoat) that spread like wild fire (in spite of hand washing, masks and nearly no shoulder rubbing). Everyone ran to get a covid19 test done and all tested negative. So it could very well be that infection. Seeing how quickly that viral fever spread amongst the kids my hopes of any containment of Covid19 once schools reopen has faded quickly.
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The coronavirus situation in Sweden came with a backlog for mail/packages to be processed by Swedish customs. That, foreign slowdowns in postal services also has been a factor in why mail/packages sent to Sweden have been rather slow. Online shopping boom was a factor.
The state-supporting propaganda says that the higher rate of Swedish kids being reported as sick from schools in parts this month is due to people adhering to guidelines to not show up to school if having even the slightest of symptoms that may relate to Covid-19, and that we should expect this. What that kind of response fails to consider is that there were no reports of the proportion of (open school) classes absent for reported sickness being this high (or higher) during the March-June school period.
My conclusion too is something like yours: that the idea of open schools being able to contain SARS-COV2 is a pipe dream.
Alternatively parents are reporting their kids to be sick to avoid going to school...?
Seriously though, about two weeks ago nearly every kid in our kids friend circle had some kind of summer viral fever/flu (light fever for a few days, running nose, sore thoat) that spread like wild fire (in spite of hand washing, masks and nearly no shoulder rubbing). Everyone ran to get a covid19 test done and all tested negative. So it could very well be that infection. Seeing how quickly that viral fever spread amongst the kids my hopes of any containment of Covid19 once schools reopen has faded quickly.
Seriously though, about two weeks ago nearly every kid in our kids friend circle had some kind of summer viral fever/flu (light fever for a few days, running nose, sore thoat) that spread like wild fire (in spite of hand washing, masks and nearly no shoulder rubbing). Everyone ran to get a covid19 test done and all tested negative. So it could very well be that infection. Seeing how quickly that viral fever spread amongst the kids my hopes of any containment of Covid19 once schools reopen has faded quickly.
My conclusion too is something like yours: that the idea of open schools being able to contain SARS-COV2 is a pipe dream.
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So, apparently, thousands of Swedes have received a false positive result after taking a commercial covid-19 test. We're talking about 3,700 tests that were positive, but they should have been negative.
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/s...presskonferens
Which basically means that the infection rate in Sweden is far lower than what has been reported in mass media and on web pages like worldometers.
As I've already said: The pandemic is over in Sweden and covid-19 has become an endemic disease.
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/s...presskonferens
Which basically means that the infection rate in Sweden is far lower than what has been reported in mass media and on web pages like worldometers.
As I've already said: The pandemic is over in Sweden and covid-19 has become an endemic disease.
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So, apparently, thousands of Swedes have received a false positive result after taking a commercial covid-19 test. We're talking about 3,700 tests that were positive, but they should have been negative.
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/s...presskonferens
Which basically means that the infection rate in Sweden is far lower than what has been reported in mass media and on web pages like worldometers.
As I've already said: The pandemic is over in Sweden and covid-19 has become an endemic disease.
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/s...presskonferens
Which basically means that the infection rate in Sweden is far lower than what has been reported in mass media and on web pages like worldometers.
As I've already said: The pandemic is over in Sweden and covid-19 has become an endemic disease.
Some of the articles say that this test has been used over the period March to August, while the doctor interviewed on SVT seemed to indicate June/July, though that was just for his lab. The exact timing of these tests being used is not entirely clear to me, but if they all happened in June/July, it would be a quite dramatic share of reported numbers for that period, if it happened over the period March to August, it is not a big fluctuation. It is unfortunate when flawed tests happens, it happened in other countries as well, it does seem that China has a bit of a supply chain issue in terms of the tests, or they just have lower standards.
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Some of the articles say that this test has been used over the period March to August, while the doctor interviewed on SVT seemed to indicate June/July, though that was just for his lab. The exact timing of these tests being used is not entirely clear to me, but if they all happened in June/July, it would be a quite dramatic share of reported numbers for that period, if it happened over the period March to August, it is not a big fluctuation.
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Strange that Sweden approved such test in the first place... AFAIR the only test universally accepted by authorities is the PCR test?