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Re:Sweden to shut bars and restaurants that ignore coronavir... by im3w1l on Friday April 24, 2020 @12:02PM (#22969488)
With 1200 dead, that means on the order of 100k cases. Stockholm has about 1-2m people depending on how you count. It cannot grow exponentially for much longer, so the peak is close.

This is the most logical time to take measures, except for maybe the very beginning when it could possibly have been stopped.

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Re:Sweden to shut bars and restaurants that ignore coronavir... by adventured on Friday April 24, 2020 @01:12PM (#22970490)
The big problem with Sweden's approach, is that the duration of immunity is entirely unknown when it comes to SARS-CoV-2. We don't yet know what antibody level is required to generate that hypothetical immunity, including whether asymptomatic and mild-case persons (which will be the vast majority of Sweden's herd) are going to have the required level of antibodies.

They're taking a swing in the dark, with the potential risk of a very high per capita mortality rate. If the duration of immunity is short, they could kill a lot of people for little gain. They're currently running at seven times the per capita mortality rate of Finland.

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