COVID-19 Update

[Al Czervik]

Criticized for refusing to lock down, Sweden’s top health official says
herd immunity is inevitable and took credit for the slowing of
coronavirus numbers.

“According to our modelers, we are starting to see so many immune people
in the population in Stockholm that it is starting to have an effect on
the spread of the infection,” Anders Tegnell, who led the charge to keep
Sweden open, told local media.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/sweden-claims-coronavirus-success-after-keeping-country-open-says-herd-immunity-imminent/ar-BB12T5Rt?

[Byker]

Post by Al Czervik
Criticized for refusing to lock down, Sweden’s top health official says
herd immunity is inevitable and took credit for the slowing of coronavirus
numbers.
“According to our modelers, we are starting to see so many immune people
in the population in Stockholm that it is starting to have an effect on
the spread of the infection,” Anders Tegnell, who led the charge to keep
Sweden open, told local media.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/sweden-claims-coronavirus-success-after-keeping-country-open-says-herd-immunity-imminent/ar-BB12T5Rt?

Oh? This doesn't sound like "herd immunity" to me:

https://fortune.com/2020/07/16/sweden-covid-strategy-herd-immunity-elusive/

https://daily.jstor.org/herd-immunity-wont-solve-covid-19-problem/

[Al Czervik]

Post by Byker

Post by Al Czervik
Criticized for refusing to lock down, Sweden’s top health official says
herd immunity is inevitable and took credit for the slowing of coronavirus
numbers.
“According to our modelers, we are starting to see so many immune people
in the population in Stockholm that it is starting to have an effect on
the spread of the infection,” Anders Tegnell, who led the charge to keep
Sweden open, told local media.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/sweden-claims-coronavirus-success-after-keeping-country-open-says-herd-immunity-imminent/ar-BB12T5Rt?

https://fortune.com/2020/07/16/sweden-covid-strategy-herd-immunity-elusive/

That's what it looks like - the natural progression of a disease until
significant population (the herd) is immune and the virus doesn't have
anywhere to go. This mistake Sweden made (and many of our states made as
well), hindsight being 20:20, is that they didn't isolate their
vulnerable. The mistake we are making right now is that we aren't
allowing our healthy, those under 40 and those under 60 without
comorbidity to get infected. The result is that the disease is going to
simmer in the background into 2021-22 flu season. The mistake we are
going to make in the fall is not opening our schools.