Restrictions? Recommendations? Advice? Stricter Advice
Good news and bad news. But unfortunately, it’s the Trump kind of good news, since the bad news is that what might appear to be good news is actually very bad. It it weren’t so bad, the good news would have been that the number of new registered cases may have peaked, but the reason is that people just can’t get tested anymore:
– To keep calling for more and think that somebody has to show up to ask you where you are going – that somebody has to guard you and make sure that you adhere to the restrictions – it is obviously not as simple as that, she says and emphasizes that in a population of ten million people, each and everyone has to take a big responsibility.
Hallengren (minister of social affairs): It isn’t simple to indtroduce new measures
In accordance with doctors for infection prevention and Regional councils, the Public Health Agency has decided to introduce
stricter general advice.
Tightened restrictions in the region – the population: ”Absolutely necessary!”
It is very difficult to understand why we can’t all follow the instructions, since they are as detailed and easy to understand as always, just a little more so.
The Public Health Agency’s ridiculously simple rules show that we are all idiots
An article describing the difference between Sweden and the other Nordic countries, Norway in particular:
As early as February, Iceland was working actively on contact tracing. Because of that, Iceland was the first country to discover that Austria was a hotbed of infections - and sounded the alarm to the rest of Europe.
In Norway, they have kept to one strategy: testing, tracng and isolating. Today the country has less than one twentieth of the number of deaths that Sweden has and in Iceland only 24 people have died with corona.
– We are pleased and happy that we have avoided so many deaths and that we have had the time and opportunity to develop other strategies, says Camilla Stoltenberg, Director General of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.
Sweden reduced the testing
In Sweden, on the other hand, contact tracing was reduced at the same time as signs of societal spread began to appear.
– It is not so meaningful anymore, when you have many cases in society, to find all chains of infection. It will not stop the epidemic in this situation, said Anders Tegnell, Sweden's state epidemiologist, in Expressen TV on March 12.
– At the same time, the advice from both the World Health Organization (WHO) and the EU Disease Control Authority (ECDC) was to test, test, test and trace infections.
As early as March, both Norway and Iceland increased the number of covid tests considerably. In Sweden, it did not start until summer was approaching.
The criticism of Sweden: Wrong strategy – more people died
Still more people in Stockholm need ICU care for Covid-19. At the Karolinska Hospital in Huddinge, they are now asking the staff at the ICU wards to work in 12.5 hour shifts again, P4 Stockholm reports.
– People are very tired after the spring we had, we feel that we can’t stand working for 12.5 hours again, says ICU nurse Cajsa Persson to the radio.
But according to the hospital chief, it is not possible to work with the usual shifts with the current pressure from new patients being as it is.
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In the reports from the councils of the regions for the past week, which SVT has reviewed, several regions state that the need for testing is larger than what they have the capacity to handle.
Alarm: Seven regions have reached the maximal level of testing
