Coronavirus: Swedes risk being excluded from travelling abroad https://www.euractiv.com/section/ju...s-risk-being-excluded-from-travelling-abroad/ With summer approaching, many countries are preparing plans to reopen borders despite the lingering coronavirus pandemic. Sweden, however, could become a pariah because of the COVID-19’s ongoing spread there. EURACTIV Italia reports. Denmark and Norway are preparing to reopen their borders, but both states seem to want Swedish travellers to remain at their doorstep. (More at above url)
Well finally some good news out of Sweden... COVID-19 does what their justice system failed to do. Covid-19 claims the life of Sweden's leading extremist recruiter Swedish intelligence monitored shoe salesman with links to plotters from Mumbai to Brussels https://www.thenational.ae/world/co...weden-s-leading-extremist-recruiter-1.1025105 Sweden’s leading terrorism expert has confirmed the death of one of the country’s central figures in radicalisation circles and a key “recruiter” with links to the perpetrators of terrorist plots around the world. Over 15 years, Swedish intelligence had gathered evidence implicating associates of the Stockholm resident in attacks on civilians. Magnus Ranstorp, a counterterrorism expert at the Swedish Defence University, said the man, known as Abu Omar because he had never been convicted, had died of Covid-19. “Abu Omar was part of the infamous ‘Brandbergen mosque’ network and close friend of Swedish terrorist Mohammed Moumou, one of Abu Musab Al Zarqawi’s operational commander in Mosul,” Mr Ranstorp wrote on Twitter. A shoe salesman, Abu Omar stayed in Sweden when his colleague Moumou went to Iraq in 2006, said a 270-page report on extremist activity in the country published by the defence academy. Al Zarqawi was the founder and leader of the first ISIS groupings. “Moumou was placed on the UN terror list in December 2006. He was listed as having the same address as his close friend ‘Abu Omar’,” the document said. (More at above url)
Let's see how Sweden's neighbor is doing... Denmark faces less economic pain than EU after fast lockdown https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/a...less-economic-pain-than-EU-after-15294457.php Denmark says its economy will contract less than the European Union on average this year, after it eased restrictions on movement earlier than other countries. Gross domestic product will shrink 5.3% in 2020, the Finance Ministry in Copenhagen said on Tuesday. By contrast, the European Union is set to contract 7.4%. After imposing a strict lockdown before many other countries in Europe, Denmark last month started rolling back its curbs on movement, and has since reopened much of the economy amid signs the contagion rate has slowed. As of Monday, Denmark had reported 563 covid-19 related deaths; its fatality rate per 100,000 is around a quarter that of neighboring Sweden. (More at above url)
they are a different population.... and as I recently told you... you lock down clusters until you find the super spreaders. If there are clusters in brazil... they should be locked down.
Sweden in Recession Despite Soft Lockdown https://www.novinite.com/articles/204633/Sweden+in+Recession+Despite+Soft+Lockdown Sweden’s highly contested response to Covid-19 left much of the economy open. Even so, the country is now headed for its worst recession since World War II. Scandinavia’s biggest economy will shrink 7% this year, Finance Minister Magdalena Andersson said on Tuesday. Shortly after she spoke, the debt office revealed an historic 30-fold spike in borrowing to cover emergency spending amid record job losses. A separate survey showed 40% of businesses in Sweden’s service sector now fear bankruptcy. There’s been intense speculation over Sweden’s controversial model for fighting the spread of the coronavirus. Though the country has seen considerably more Covid-19 deaths than its Nordic neighbors, some theorized it might at least suffer less economic pain. But the latest data challenge that idea. Andersson said her country is now seeing “a very deep economic crisis.” She also said the “deep downturn in the economy is happening faster than we expected.” (More at above url)
Superspreaders are related to your low risk people that you allow to wander around freely and attend packed events. Superspreaders are not high risk residents staying at home. Superspreaders are associated with events with many people at one location -- holding these types of events is what causes the mass COVID breakouts in a community. Which merely demonstrates why lockdowns, social distancing, and limited sizes for groups are required. 'Superspreader' Events May Be Responsible for 80% of COVID Infections https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pa...events-may-be-responsible-80-covid-infections Some scientists now say “superspreader” events may be responsible for at least 80 percent of coronavirus infections. A report on the website of The Telegraph, a British newspaper, details some findings that “closely packed markets, vigorous dance classes, loud bars and choirs” may be the primary culprits in the spreading of the virus. (More at above url)
you are going to need science to establish what you just claimed. some super spreaders may be low risk... some high risk... do you have any science saying its only low risk? There is anecdotal evidence which shows you just pulled shit out of your doomer brain... Why are you always bullshitting about science? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971211000245 ... This study revealed that high numbers of close contacts represent a risk factor for super-spreading events.25 Another risk factor for super-spreading events emerges from the report of a 54-year-old male who presented on April 15 to Pingjin Hospital in China, seeking treatment for coronary heart disease, type II diabetes, and chronic renal failure.26 Subsequent to his admission the same day, the patient developed fever, myalgia and a sore throat, and a physician later suspected SARS based on previous contact with a SARS patient in another hospital. On April 17, the patient was transferred to the Tianjin Thorax Disease Hospital and received treatment for two days, and on April 19 he was again transferred to the Tianjin Infectious Disease Hospital, where he died. Only in Pingjin Hospital, this patient directly infected 33 others. Implementing active surveillance, limiting inter-hospital transfers, and quarantining patients who could have been exposed, emerge as important lessons from this experience. At least two super-spreading events were described in Hong Kong.21 In the Prince of Wales Hospital, the index patient was a 26-year-old man admitted on March 4, 2003 who, as part of his right upper lobe pneumonia treatment, was administered bronchodilators via a nebulizer. Together with overcrowding and an outdated ventilation system, this is thought to have facilitated the spread of the virus. Within the next two weeks, 156 individuals, including hospital staff, patients, and visitors, were admitted to the hospital, all of them traceable to this patient, and SARS was diagnosed in 138 of them.27, 28, 29 The index patient in the second super-spreader outbreak was an individual on hemodialysis for chronic renal failure who had diarrhea and, on two occasions, stayed with his brother in Block E in the Amoy Gardens residential complex.30, 31 Amoy Gardens has 19 residential blocks, with eight apartments on each of the 33 floors.31 In several bathrooms from block E, it was reported that the U-shaped traps linking the vertical drainage pipes, known as risers, to the sanitary fixtures, did not function properly. As a result, when water flowed down, the backflow from the risers was able to generate aerosols and spread pathogens into individual bathrooms. In addition, powerful window fans installed by residents in many bathrooms created a significant negative pressure that amplified the aerosol backflow. In the Amoy Gardens complex outbreak, 329 individuals were infected and 42 died.32 The cases occurred in clusters, at specific floor levels, in a pattern that simple person-to-person transmission could not explain, and an epidemiological investigation proposed, as a plausible explanation, a common source of exposure for all infected individuals.33 Approximately 45% of the infections occurred in Block E, the same block that the index patient visited, and approximately 60% were within flats 7 and 8, bordering the specific vertical riser thought to be involved. An investigation found that the index patient had very high concentrations of virus in the urine and feces, and proposed that aerosolization as a result of the hydraulic effect inside drainage pipes facilitated the spread of the pathogen.32 This outbreak revealed the importance of taking indoor air quality and building ventilation into account when exploring the dynamics of airborne pathogens. It was, in addition, suggested that in certain individuals, immune system defects could increase the viral load and make them become super-spreaders, as could have happened with the index patient who was undergoing hemodialysis, which is known to impair both innate and adaptive immunity.27, 34 An interesting observation came from the Vietnam outbreak. When on March 12, 2003 the Vietnam French Hospital in Hanoi was closed for new admissions and 33 patients were admitted to another hospital until May 2, no nosocomial infections were reported in the second hospital and none of its healthcare workers became ill with a condition that resembled SARS,35 revealing that in the absence of super-spreading events, most patients do not infect others.
A nursing home fits a definition of a superspreader event and location. With the added problem that the residents are high risk. However a nursing home is very unlikely to spread COVID-19 outside of the nursing home. A crowded concert, sports stadium event, dance party, or church service is far more likely to be a superspreader event in terms of the number of people that get infected and be an example of an event responsible for nearly 80% of COVID infections.
why did you just make this shit up? Superspreaders are related to your low risk people that you allow to wander around freely and attend packed events.
'“closely packed markets, vigorous dance classes, loud bars and choirs” may be the primary culprits in the spreading of the virus.' How many people from nursing homes are at these events?