Re:Nearly 40% of Icelanders are using a Covid app, but it ha...
by nl on Sunday May 17, 2020 @01:48AM
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This absolutely does not work.
In Australia we tried to keep aged care homes isolated, and it was catastrophic - something like 25% of deaths were from a couple of cases that were undetected and made it into aged care homes.
In Sweden this was explicitly their plan and here's what happened:
“It’s very difficult to keep the disease away from there,” he said. “Even if we are doing our best, it’s obviously not enough.”
But he said: “We are not putting anybody’s lives above everybody else’s lives – that’s not the way we’re working.”
Tegnell said in late April that at least half of the country’s deaths had been in nursing homes.
“We really thought our elderly homes would be much better at keeping this disease outside of them then they have actually been,” he told Noah
In Australia we tried to keep aged care homes isolated, and it was catastrophic - something like 25% of deaths were from a couple of cases that were undetected and made it into aged care homes.
In Sweden this was explicitly their plan and here's what happened:
“It’s very difficult to keep the disease away from there,” he said. “Even if we are doing our best, it’s obviously not enough.”
But he said: “We are not putting anybody’s lives above everybody else’s lives – that’s not the way we’re working.”
Tegnell said in late April that at least half of the country’s deaths had been in nursing homes.
“We really thought our elderly homes would be much better at keeping this disease outside of them then they have actually been,” he told Noah
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/coronavirus-sweden-lockdo...