<https://www.quora.com/profile/Mats-Andersson-16> Mats Andersson <https://www.quora.com/profile/Mats-Andersson-16> · August 26 <https://www.quora.com/Is-Sweden-right-or-wrong-about-the-coronavirus/answer/Mats-Andersson-16> Swedish by Birth and Unfettered Habit Is Sweden right or wrong about the coronavirus? <https://www.quora.com/Is-Sweden-right-or-wrong-about-the-coronavirus>
Thanks for the A2A. We had exactly the same approach as everyone else: apply the minimum of restrictions consistent with containing the spread so that healthcare services are not overwhelmed. We applied a set of measures, and saw that they worked. Already in mid-March, the authorities predicted that the peak of hospitalisations would be during the last week of April, at 75% of IVA capacity; they turned out to be right to within three days and five percentage points. It’s now down to a trickle, we have about 30 IVA cases in the entire country, and many hospitals are getting back to normal operations. And what’s more, after the easing of domestic travel restrictions in mid-June, the general feeling is that we can live with our restrictions basically forever, if need be. For us, the big crisis is over. The situation is bad and will continue to be bad for the foreseeable future, we will need to stay vigilant, follow all the rules and recommendations, and be prepared for stricter regulations if the need arises, but we turned the tide and can turn it again—only this time we will see it coming in advance and know what to do. Did everything work out perfectly? Of course not. In a crisis of this magnitude, you have local failures and the occasional outright disaster. Every country has had a fair share of those. But yesterday, Sweden reported one Covid-19 death. One. It’s not over yet, but we seem to be getting there. Fingers crossed.. 7K views View Upvoters View Sharers · Answer requested by Alex Boast <https://www.quora.com/profile/Alex-Boast-4> 111 1 21 <https://www.quora.com/profile/Sunny-Ambon> Add Comment <https://www.quora.com/profile/Tom-Lowe-34> Tom Lowe <https://www.quora.com/profile/Tom-Lowe-34> · August 28 <https://www.quora.com/Is-Sweden-right-or-wrong-about-the-coronavirus/answer/Mats-Andersson-16?comment_id=157145492&comment_type=2> I don’t think it was exactly the same approach. While there was a lot of talk about flattening the curve initially, Sweden in the end was about the only country that ended up practicing flattening the curve. Everywhere else went for suppression involving lockdowns, and school/business closures until there were few enough numbers to open up. Flattening the curve you make sure you stay under the capacity of your hospitals. Suppression you isolate until numbers are a lot lower than hospital capacity, and the remaining cases can be dealt with small local lock downs. That’s how I see it anyway. 3 Reply <https://www.quora.com/profile/Anja-Castensson> Anja Castensson <https://www.quora.com/profile/Anja-Castensson> · August 31 <https://www.quora.com/Is-Sweden-right-or-wrong-about-the-coronavirus/answer/Mats-Andersson-16?comment_id=157708582&comment_type=2> My impression was this 1) JAN china wuhan lock down, wow that would only happen in China 2) FEB Italy Spain - hospital overload - panic, lock down necessary 3) FEB-MARS rest of Europe, in panic, we gotta lock down, before it gets that bad. Flattening is the goal. 4) some countries with lockdown succcess … (more) 4 Reply <https://www.quora.com/profile/AC-Milan-3> Quora User <https://www.quora.com/profile/AC-Milan-3> · September 4 <https://www.quora.com/Is-Sweden-right-or-wrong-about-the-coronavirus/answer/Mats-Andersson-16?comment_id=158327568&comment_type=2> The curve is not flattering because Anders Tegnell has persistenly talked about since his first press conference! Countries which applied lock-down DID also talk about flattering their own curve (and they did it too). Do you think that Italy or Spain should have had better performance in terms of fl … (more) 2 Reply Anja CastenssonNo? My point is that lockdown became vogue, it started to be used not when epidemiologist reasoned it was good point doing it, but by copying other countries.OECD countries’ politicians follow each other Maybe a lot of people talked about flattening - in the beginning they certainly did *Italy Spain lockdown * but in my impression soon it was replaced with Pueyos (a non epidemiologist) hammer dance - suppression became the goal instead of mitigation. We DID flattening it in Sweden. A few weeks after restrictions death rate /ICU rates went down. Flattening is about helping hospital cope with the load, and is focused on deaths/ICU curve. Suppression is focused on keeping cases low, even asymptomatic mild cases. The idea is to, at any cost, keep covid infection rate low. <https://www.quora.com/profile/Stefan-Englund-%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%B3-%E3%82%A8%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AB%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89> Stefan Englund (ステファン エングルンド) <https://www.quora.com/profile/Stefan-Englund-%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%B3-%E3%82%A8%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AB%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89> · August 30 <https://www.quora.com/Is-Sweden-right-or-wrong-about-the-coronavirus/answer/Mats-Andersson-16?comment_id=157529507&comment_type=2> In general, except for the strategy for elderly on nursing homes and home care this is pretty much it. 1 Reply <https://www.quora.com/profile/Michael-Karnerfors> Michael Karnerfors <https://www.quora.com/profile/Michael-Karnerfors> · September 9 <https://www.quora.com/Is-Sweden-right-or-wrong-about-the-coronavirus/answer/Mats-Andersson-16?comment_id=159083187&comment_type=2> That damage was done before any restriction even could be put in place. Reply Stefan Englund (ステファン エングルンド)No, I which it was so but no, a big NO. From the initiation o
