Emails from Sweden’s Fauci Reveal Discussions About Now-Failed Plan to Reach ’Herd Immunity’
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As noted by the BBC, in a country of about 10 million people, statistics indicate that the country has had one of the highest death rates (compared to population size) in Europe, despite bans on gatherings and shifting to table service in bars and restaurants.
In June, Tegnell conceded that too many citizens had died. “If we were to encounter the same disease again... I think we would settle on doing something in between what Sweden did and what the rest of the world has done,” he said, the BBC reported.
Not only did COVID-19 not come to a halt, but herd immunity is still “nowhere in sight,” according to a Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine study published Tuesday.
“It is clear that not only are the rates of viral infection, hospitalization and mortality (per million population) much higher than those seen in neighboring Scandinavian countries, but also that the time-course of the epidemic in Sweden is different, with continued persistence of higher infection and mortality (as one is inexorably linked to the other) well beyond the few critical weeks period seen in Denmark, Finland and Norway, whose rapid lock-down measures seem to have been initially more successful in curtailing the infection surge,” the authors wrote in their academic analysis.
In terms of COVID-19-related deaths, Norway, Denmark and Finland are each believed to be in the hundreds not thousands, current statistics indicate.