Sweden extends pandemic law for four more months https://www.thelocal.se/20210922/sweden-extends-pandemic-law-for-four-more-months/ Sweden's parliament voted on Wednesday to extend the country's pandemic law for four months, giving it the opportunity to introduce further restrictions if the Covid-19 situation requires. The pandemic law gives the government power to introduce extra measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus, including limiting the opening hours or number of people allowed at gyms, shops and other businesses, and in public spaces like parks and beaches. It was first passed in December 2020 (but only actually came into effect from January), after ministers first suggested it should come into force from summer 2021, but it was fast-tracked amid an autumn resurgence of the virus. It was this law that allowed the government to limit visitors at gyms and shops to a maximum of one per ten square metres, for example, but some of the restrictions made possible by the law were never implemented as they were not judged necessary to curb the spread of infection. Parliament has now voted to extend the law for four months past its initial expiry date of September 30th, even though at this point there will be no restrictions in place under the law. Also on Wednesday, parliament voted to extend the law on temporary infection control measures at restaurants, bars and pubs. The parliament’s Social Affairs Committee also asked the government to submit a report to parliament on how the laws have been used by November 12th at the latest. Based on this, the committee will assess whether there is a reason to keep the laws in place for the full four months, and will propose that parliament repeals them earlier than January if not. Sweden plans to lift most of its remaining restrictions from September 29th, including the removal of distancing regulations at restaurants for example, and the parliamentary vote does not change this. However, it means that the government will still have the legal possibility to re-introduce these measures if needed.
Let's take a look at the two scientists who the world actual credits with inventing mRNA vaccines which are being used to protect society against Covid. And here is a hint -- it is not the fraud, Dr. Robert Malone. UPenn Researchers Behind COVID Vaccine Technology Win ‘America’s Nobel’ https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2...ariko-drew-weissman-covid-vaccine-mrna-award/ Two researchers from the University of Pennsylvania who developed the technology used in both Moderna and Pfizer’s COVID vaccines have won a major award. Katalin Kariko and Dr. Drew Weissman worked together to develop the mRNA technology that made both companies’ COVID vaccines possible. The creation was considered a major breakthrough in the pandemic battle and has now won the 2021 Lasker Clinical Medical Research Award. Considered “America’s Nobel,” the award includes a $250,000 prize.
COVID-19 Special: Unnecessary deaths in Sweden, says study While most countries imposed a lockdown in response to the first wave of COVID, but Sweden did not. A study shows that if it had it could have reduced deaths by 38%. https://www.dw.com/en/covid-19-special-unnecessary-deaths-in-sweden-says-study/av-59365808
Do you get tired of posting meaningless non-sense and not even putting your own thought into it? You are a washed-up, burnt out baby boomer who still thinks the world owes you something. You lack critical thinking skills.
Let's see the latest nationwide study out of Sweden... Covid vaccination reduces Covid even among the unvaccinated. So if the parents are vaccinated it helps protect the children and other unvaccinated people in the community. Of course, the more people vaccinated, the better the protection will be. Nationwide study shows link between COVID vaccination and reduced household transmission in Sweden https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-nationwide-link-covid-vaccination-household.html As community members increasingly acquire COVID immunity via vaccination or previous infection, people without immunity to COVID-19 are at considerably lower risk of infection and hospitalization. This is shown in a nationwide study performed by researchers at Umeå University, Sweden. "The results strongly suggest that vaccination is important not only for individual protection, but also for reducing transmission, especially within families, which is a high-risk environment for transmission," says Peter Nordström, professor of geriatric medicine at Umeå University. There is a vast body of research showing that vaccines strongly reduce the risk of COVID-19. However, less is known about the influence of vaccination on transmission of the virus in high-risk environments, such as within families. This is what researchers at Umeå University aimed to investigate in a new study. In the study, the researchers found that there was a dose-response association between the number of immune individuals in each family and the risk of infection and hospitalization in non-immune family members. Specifically, non-immune family members had a 45 to 97 percent lower risk of infection and hospitalization, as the number of immune family members increased. The study is a nationwide, registry-based study of more than 1.8 million individuals from more than 800,000 families. The researchers combined registry data from the Public Health Agency of Sweden, the National Board of Health and Welfare, and from Statistics Sweden, which is the government agency that oversees statistical data. In the analysis, the researchers quantified the association between the number of family members with immunity against COVID-19 and the risk of infection and hospitalization in nonimmune individuals. The researchers accounted for differences in age, socioeconomic status, clustering within families, and several diagnoses previously identified as risk factors for COVID-19 in the Swedish population. "It seems as if vaccination helps not only to reduce the individual's risk of becoming infected, but also to reduce transmission, which in turn minimizes not only the risk that more people become critically il, but also that new problematic variants emerge and start to take over. Consequently, ensuring that many people are vaccinated has implications on a local, national, and global scale," says Marcel Ballin, doctoral student in geriatric medicine at Umeå University and co-author of the study. The study is published in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Won? Well if winning means have 10X more Covid deaths per capita wile tanking your economy worse than your direct neighbors then I guess this is “winning”. What a horrible prize to “win”.
TT is one of the few stubborn stragglers that still can not come to grips with the following facts about why Sweden is now doing a lot better with fighting Covid: Sweden admitted natural herd immunity failed and quickly switched to using strict restrictions and a vaccination policy of their citizens. Sweden's citizens (recent poll) feel its their civic duty to be fully vaccinated to protect each other. Anders Tegnell is now fully vaccinated and encouraging the citizens of Sweden to get vaccinated. Sweden is run by a social democratic government that passed the Pandemic law as a way to encourage their citizens to get vaccinated to prevent the government from using that Pandemic law (lockdown / mandates). wrbtrader
10X more deaths per capita than what? 50th when ranked by COVID deaths per capita. 52nd as of today. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
Tell us how Sweden compares to Finland and Norway. Keep in mind that Sweden's initial strategy failed so bad they had to revert to restrictions and lockdowns like all the other European countries to stop Covid. Even their Prime Minister and King had to admit their initial Covid strategy was a complete failure.