Vilified early over Covid-19 strategy, Sweden seems to have scourge controlled

Re:Vilified early over Covid-19 strategy, Sweden seems to ha... by claudeganon on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @02:02PM (#24641623)

Or compared to Vietnam, which has 100 million people and less than 40 deaths.

People have just hung their hat on Sweden’s approach out of some ideological attachment that’s completely independent from how countries across the world have performed.

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Re:Vilified early over Covid-19 strategy, Sweden seems to ha... by lsllc on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @02:25PM (#24641899)

Vietnam is interesting, they initially were very successfully contained COVID, but have had a resurgence over the summer that they put down to a "more infectious" strain (the "G" strain that has been prevalent in the US, Italy/Europe vs the supposedly less infectious "D" strain in Asia):

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/Vietnam-fights...

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/Vietnam-deploy...

But regardless, Vietnam has done quite well.

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Re:Vilified early over Covid-19 strategy, Sweden seems to ha... by SomeoneFromCA on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @04:01PM (#24643109)

You need to look the excess death. The only true indicator. There might be hidden deaths, keeping in mind that Vietnam is not a country where the press is free.

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