SvennoJ said:
Btw is this true?
Still, on the most basic of measures, Sweden is faring worse than its more-locked-down neighbours: Norway has reported 30 deaths per million population, Denmark 58, and Sweden 139. As the National Post’s Colby Cosh noted earlier in the week, Anders Tegnell, Sweden’s epidemiologist-in-chief, defends this as a failure not of the approach, but of component systems: It turns out Swedish nursing homes are fantastically vulnerable to COVID-19 outbreaks, just like ours. Somali immigrants are hugely over-represented among the infected. Tegnell suggested this was because they’re not doing the things public health officials are asking them to do, because they’re poorly integrated into Swedish society. (Swedes don’t need to be ordered around, because they are so trustful of officialdom, and of each other, that a kind request is all that’s needed — or so the story goes.)
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/chris-selley-canadians-should-wish-sweden-well-in-its-no-lockdown-approach-to-covid-19
(Just some garbage google came up with, recommending a link to covid19 coming from a lab again lol)
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It's true that our attempts at isolating nursing homes has failed, and it's one important factor that contributes to our relatively high deathrate. In Stockholm 212 out of 400 nursing homes had confirmed cases of Covid-19 as of 4 May.
It's also true that Swedes born in Somalia are overrepresented when it comes to infections. As of 17 April the numbers looked like this:
| Place of Birth |
Number of cases |
Overrepresentation |
| Somalia |
283 |
7 |
| Turkey |
150 |
5.1 |
| Iraq |
242 |
2.9 |
| Finland |
188 |
2.3 |
| Eritrea |
55 |
2.1 |
| Syria |
197 |
1.8 |
| Iran |
83 |
1.8 |
| Former Yugoslavia |
60 |
1.6 |
Integration is probably part of the explanation, but it's also important to note that people from these groups are more likely to live in high-density areas.
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