Low infection rates and no sign of a lockdown.
It seems that Swedes are getting through the corona pandemic better than the rest of Europe.
Sweden seems to be getting through the second wave * of the corona pandemic better than others.
The country reports low numbers of infections and hardly any corona deaths.
The country's chief epidemiologists have identified three causes for this.
Stockholm
- at the beginning of the year, the Scandinavian country was still the boo of the
EU
.
The number of
infections
in
Sweden has
now reached an all-time
low.
The
country is more removed
from a
lockdown
than ever before.
In contrast, the countries with the strictest rules and restrictions are now struggling again with extremely high numbers of cases.
Swedish
epidemiologists
explain why they think their path is turning out to be the better one.
Coronavirus in Sweden: The pandemic will not be resolved by a lockdown
In all of
Sweden there are
said to be only 14 seriously ill Corona * patients.
There have probably been no corona deaths for weeks.
But how can that be?
The country relied on the
self-responsibility of
its citizens and not on a
lockdown
.
"There is no scientific evidence that
lockdowns
actually have an effect," said
Sweden's
former
chief epidemiologist Johan Giesecke
in April of the
Bild newspaper
(behind a pay barrier).
And it turned out he was right.
So was
Health Minister Jens Spahn
to recently that the
lockdown
was not necessary "with the knowledge of today."
The current
chief epidemiologist Andres Tegnell
said in the
Financial Times
: "
Like
using a hammer to kill a fly."
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The second reason why
Sweden
is doing so well at the moment -
lockdowns
are comparable to diets, they have a yo-yo effect.
Gieseke also
predicted this at the beginning of the year.
"There will be more
infections
again
." Because no country can seal itself off in such a way that the virus * disappears.
Opening
schools and shops and closing them again is "a disaster," said
Tegnell
.
"People get very tired, companies suffer more than if they were closed completely."
Coronavirus in Sweden: health system was not overloaded
As a third reason,
Gieseke identified
solid
health systems
early on
.
“The prognoses for the need for hospital beds were too high.
Our
health system
has not collapsed and it will not collapse, "said the
epidemiologist
. And so neither in
Sweden
nor in
Germany
were hospitals on the verge of collapse. Despite the increasing number of infections, only 236 Corona * patients were in an intensive care unit yesterday. But not everything went well in
Sweden
.
Tegnell also
admits mistakes.
(tel) * Merkur.de is part of the Ippen-Digital network.
“Our major failure was in long-term and elderly care.
The regional offices should have been better prepared, then there would have been fewer deaths, ”said the state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell.
https://t.co/nfJnA0bD6s
- Health Central Germany (@gesundheit_md) September 14, 2020
In Austria, however, a lockdown could soon be considered again due to the increasing number of infections.
And from today, stricter corona measures will also apply in Great Britain.
List of rubric lists: © dpa / Sebastian Willnow
