Coronavirus tracked: Charting Sweden's disastrous no-lockdown strategy

[marmar]

(Independent UK) Sweden has taken the ignominious title of the country with the world's highest death rate from the Covid-19 coronavirus.

The title, which was was briefly held by the UK in late May, comes after Swedish officials decided to ignore the lockdown advice of countless health experts and keep the country open during the pandemic.

The number of deaths per capita in Sweden is now more than four-times that of any of its Scandinavian and Nordic neighbours.

And while its death toll of around 4,500 may still be just a fraction of other badly affected countries like the US (105,000+) and the UK (38,000+), it is the death rate that reveals the true impact of Sweden's no-lockdown approach.

The rolling seven-day average for new confirmed deaths per million people in Sweden is now nearly twice that of the US, and more than five-times that of France, which had the highest death rate in the world in April. ...............(more)

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/coronavirus-lockdown-sweden-death-rate-worst-country-covid-19-a9539206.html

[chia]

1. Have to say I was a bit bemused to see right-wingers using Sweden as a positive example of anything,

but in this instance I wasn't surprised, they'll use whatever they need to use and never see their own hypocrisy.

I'm sorry for those whose lives were unnecessarily ended as a result of Sweden's grand experiment.

As one right-winger put it:

so to hell with the numbers of dying.
it is the numbers of free people that count.

[Karadeniz]

2. Every newscaster needs to read DU to inform the public!❤