Covid-19 in Sweden - Fri, Nov 13, 2020
Welcome to the pandemlympics, where every country is comparable down to the day and everyone is a combined epidemiologist and statistician. [Gwypaas](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25075059)
Sweden has a second wave, although still in an earlier stage than most other places. Hopefully it can be turned around before ICU numbers start rising again. New recommendations went in place a few weeks ago and personally I see less people around, and the mobility data is trending down. Telia Covid-19 mobility analysis
Restrictions on serving alcohol in pubs and clubs started the 20th of November 2020, limiting service to before 22:00. I feel that is mostly for show though, since if it truly had a point it would start today and not after people spent one last weekend partying.
The spread is mostly in the age group 20-29 currently, so that is a plus. Although trickles of spread in hospice are coming back, which is worrying. They started to allow some visitors a month or so back because the mental health of elderly were deteriorating quite rapidly due to the forced isolation for their own safety.
We can see from the Swedish public health authority page that new ICU admittances have leveled off. Hopefully. “Nya intensivvÃ¥rdade fall per dag” (New ICU cases per day)
For those proposing sweeping lock-downs and using Sweden as their argument: Sweden did lockdown less than many other places, that is true. The constitution does not allow for restrictions in freedom of movement unless in war so recommendations were used. Sweden basically did a lockdown - it just wasn’t enforced French style military police on the streets with fines though.
Here’s the mobility data. Google mobility data
Interesting points to look at:
- Share / population of death is still higher than neighboring countries (as of 20201124) SVT
- About 200 people are currently cared for by the national health institution and the system is managing SVT
- Over 6000 deaths are too many deaths. There has been high negligance in the elderly care, especially in Stockholm with their majority of privatized healthcare. SR
- Not one of the 21 regions took full responsibility to make sure that eldery got appropriate care SR