Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[LurkerJ]

drkohler said:

LurkerJ said:

This has a major effect on where you are compared to other countries. According to Johns Hopkins University, Belgium has twice as many COVID-19 deaths per capita as the Netherlands. But in Belgium, almost half of those deaths are from nursing homes, while testing is more rare in Dutch nursing homes so fewer deaths there are attributed to the disease.

Belgium does not do any post mortem analysis. Everyone who dies is automatically counted as covid death if s/he was reported to have shown some generic symptom usually associated with covid. So they probably "overaccount" somewhat.

In Austria, a research group reports that all of a group of divers, recovered from covid (all having experienced mild symptons only), show irreversible damage to the lungs (they are all ex-divers now). What that means is anyone's guess. So I'm still not convinced that the Swedish way is the clever way.

I'm sure they have essentially killed people who could have been saved by harsher measures that are in place in most of the Europen countries.

And the article doesn't disagree? In fact, it reaffirms what you mentioned over and over. The question is, a year from now, who had the proper approach to the same problem?

If a year from now, the number of death per capita for Sweden is way higher than other countries, we can say Sweden made the wrong call. But if the number ends up about the same, then yeah, Sweden made the correct call...

... Especially that the deaths are in Sweden are NOT happening because the healthcare system is overwhelmed.