During the pandemic, there has been lots of research on face masks. The scientific consensus is that wearing face masks is the single most effective public health measure to slow the spread of the infection. In a recent large study, it was shown that wearing masks reduces the number of infections by 53%. Among the … Continue reading Swedish Insanity: “Masks are not Effective against Covid-19”
Covid-19 has spread from the OSCE meeting held in Sweden to at least 9 countries. The Foreign Ministers from 51 nations attended the meeting held in Arlanda, outside Stockholm on December 2nd and 3rd, 2021. On December 5th, OSCE informed the participants, that two of the persons participating had tested positive for Covid-19 upon returning … Continue reading At least 15 infected in OSCE Ministerial Council in Sweden
Now that Omicron is hitting us, Sweden seems like a relatively safe place to be. Reading the Swedish Covid-headlines, there are 100 cases reported in Norway, 48 in Denmark, and a separate story about the infection spreading in the Finnish Parliament. With all this going on, Sweden has reported a total of no more than … Continue reading How Sweden Never Had a Chance Against Omicron
About thirty employees of Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg, Sweden are confirmed to have been infected with Covid-19. Twenty of those tested positive were among some 400 hospital staff attending an educational event on the 19th November.The event, ‘OP-IVA-dag’ of Sahlgrenska University hospital, is an annual event for the Hospital’s Surgery-, Anesthetics- and Intensive Care … Continue reading Hospital Covid Seminar Became a Spreader Event–Sweden
Sweden could have used an “expert group with international roots in relevant areas and with high scientific competence.” Criticism of Sweden's pandemic management: Appoint expert group for future pandemics Sweden should set up an expert group that can give decision-makers advice in the event of major outbreaks. This is the opinion of the Royal Swedish … Continue reading Criticism of Sweden’s pandemic management: Royal Academy of Sciences
Entering December 2021, the 14 day running averages of Confirmed Cases and Deaths in Sweden March 2020 – November 2021. Deaths reported for the last 14 days are not included as the lag in Sweden’s reporting is usually up to two weeks, and numbers in that interval would be misleading. Scaled to MAX 14 DAY … Continue reading Covid-19 Cases and Deaths in Sweden, FOHM Data November 2021
The study, conducted by researchers at University of Sydney in Australia, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, and Uppsala University in Sweden is presented in the European Infection Control Agency's journal Eurosurveillance.The study where 71,000 patient samples were analyzed, found that Sweden’s Covid-19 strategy has led to the infection being transmitted from Sweden to other … Continue reading Study: Covid spread from Sweden to Neighboring Countries. Tegnell: No Comment
The Swedes do have access to foreign media, so one would expect to see more mask wearing in Stockholm. In the neighboring countries, where mask wearing has been promoted as a way to protect yourself and others, a majority of people have continued to wear masks – as a personal choice – even when they … Continue reading Politics before Science — Swedes continue to deny the benefit of wearing face mask
When 13-year-old Linus refused to take off his mask at school, he was locked in a room. There he had to wait until his mother came and picked him up. When the school reopened after the sports holiday, Linus wanted to wear a mask. Several of the school staff had previously been infected with Covid-19 … Continue reading Stockholm: A 13-year-old Sent Home from School for Wearing a Mask
In the early days of the pandemic, Sweden failed to test and track the Corona virus. When they were bracing for a new mutation, almost a year later, it turned out that nothing had been learned. The United Kingdom has recently informed other countries about a new variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The new variant … Continue reading How the British Variant Became the Swedish Virus
To date, the the measures taken or not taken by the Nordic nations to protect their citizens countries have resulted in *):Sweden: 7,514 deathsDenmark: 941 deathsFinland: 453 deathsNorway: 387 deathsIn the early stages of the pandemic, when the Covid-19 deaths were growing exponentially, the National Public Health Authority (FOHM) in Sweden repeatedly made claims … Continue reading Year 2020 Review: How did the Nordic Countries Manage Covid-19; And is Sweden heading to disaster–Again.
The Swedish sickness is a political as well as a medical disaster […] The public and press have trusted Tegnell. Sticking by him has become a nationalist badge of honour [… ] If Tegnell had said Sweden should have locked down rather than remain open, the politicians and public would have obeyed his orders as … Continue reading The Politics of Covid-19 in Sweden: TheGuardian
Covid-19 deaths in Sweden were the highest in Europe per capita in a rolling seven-day average between 12 and 19 May.” It confirmed that Sweden’s state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell’s “mitigation” strategy of allowing shops, restaurants, gyms, schools and workplaces to remain open was a deadly folly. It does not even seem to have produced herd … Continue reading Covid-19 deaths in Sweden the highest in Europe
From today’s Nationa Health Authority press conference as it was relayed on SVT new feed:Anders Tegnell shows four graphs that compare the curves of reported cases in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. - We have not entered numbers because how to test differs so much. However, each country has tested in the same way throughout … Continue reading FoHM Press report: “Jumps and Ups and Some High Bars at the End”
Former state epidemiologist Johan Giesecke expects Sweden to return to a more normal situation by the end of May. "It's a gut feeling I have," he says.Giesecke is a former state epidemiologist, that is, he used to have a position with the Swedish National Public Health Agency (FOHM). I am not even sure what … Continue reading Giesecke: "All other countries are doing wrong”
According to international statistics, Sweden had this Saturday 37 reported deaths per million inhabitants, Denmark 28, Norway 11, and Finland 5. Tegnell says international comparisons of deaths are very difficult. Different countries, even among the Nordic countries, report the causes of deaths differently. No one knows if the differences between the Nordic countries depend of … Continue reading The Nordic Countries are in Different phases
More countries require people to wear masks More and more countries are urging people to wear masks when outdoors when possible. In the United States and France, citizens are advised to do so. In northern Italy, it has become a law, writes The Guardian. But in Sweden, experts disagree about the benefit of personal protection … Continue reading To run around town with a small rag that gets wet, that it works, there is not much evidence for
In Sweden, 373 people have so far been found dead as a result of the coronavirus. Revised official figures show that the number of deaths day by day has been higher than previously reported, according to TT's review. But the backlog is no longer expected to be as large, says state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell at … Continue reading TT, Tegnell, and the Lag in the Statistics
Edited May 5th, 2020373 dead – Total number reported on April 4th, 2020607 dead – The corrected number from FoHM report May 5th38% of deaths had not been reported -- TT estimated 50% The Swedish Public Health Authority (FoHM) Presents in their daily press conferences the Corona epidemic situation in Sweden, including the number of … Continue reading TT: Only Half the Number of Deaths Reported in Sweden.
Whether the coronavirus is transmitted from people without symptoms is a question that many ask. A small study from the British medical journal on cases in China showed that four out of five infected people may have no symptoms. The study itself does not give Professor Anders Sönnerborg much for, partly because the data is … Continue reading You can put that study in the trash
Sweden in the Time of Corona 