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23 Jan, 7 tweets, 2 min read
Do I understand this correctly?

Sweden, which has detected >55 cases of the b.117 variant, is now recommending any Swedes who have visited Norway should quarantine themselves for a week.

After Norway detected 2 cases.

This country is a parody.
And now they're looking at banning incoming travel from Norway
svt.se/nyheter/snabbk…
As a result of the "big outbreak" of B.117 in Norway.

svt.se/nyheter/inrike…
The outbreak is 2 confirmed cases, however there have been 30 other positive tests in the same home that have not been sequenced.

thelocal.no/20210123/norwa…
Note that as of 5 days ago, Sweden had 55 confirmed cases, including 16 that could not be connected to travel.

FHM's SGTF-PCR data suggests there may be thousands of cases.

folkhalsomyndigheten.se/smittskydd-ber…
While I have no particular objection to measures to decrease cases, including imported cases, banning travel from Norway while simultaneously doing little to stop the larger outbreaks in Sweden smacks more of politics and image control than infectious disease control.
Clarification: Fairer to compare to Sweden's (at last count 5 days ago) 16 cases of untraced community transmission than the total here in Sweden. Norway has had similiar total numbers but are nearly all quarantined travellers.

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25 Jan
Sweden's Covid catastrophe in context - Did we squander a Nordic advantage?

Anders Tegnell has recently become fond of claiming that Sweden isn't unusual in our high death toll - that it's our Nordic neighbours that are outliers.
In this he is partly correct. Sweden is in fact significantly higher than the European average in deaths - but our Nordic neighbours are significantly lower - indeed *much* lower. Image
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A delayed update with yesterday's new #covid19sverige data. The Public Health Authority reported 84 new deaths, taking the total to 11005.

Oldest change was -1 to March 11!! Image
I've been pointing out since it happened on Nov 5 that Folkhälsomyndigheten added a new death to the very first day we had a SARS-CoV-2 death but Swedish journalists didn't seem curious and FHM didn't answer me. Now it seems they've noticed and it was a data error ... +1 to Nov 3
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8 Jan
171 new #covid19sverige deaths reported today, taking the total to 9433. Oldest change -1 to Nov 30 (+1 to next day). Largest change +20 to Dec 27. Dec 17 increases to 114 deaths, 1 below the 155 peak of Wave 1 (April 8 and 15). A new graph today!
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With the latest updates, the steepness of the curve is now similar to that of wave 1.
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David Steadson 🇦🇺🇸🇪🇪🇺🌍 Profile picture
7 Jan
So a week ago I posted the below tweet about the start difference in infections between Northern Ireland and Ireland

It was clear supporting evidence that policy actually makes a difference in dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic.
Unfortunately Ireland is providing further evidence of this, but in the wrong way. In late October, Ireland announced they would undergo tough restrictions to get the virus under control, starting midnight, Oct 31st.

eu.usatoday.com/story/travel/n…
Here's how the situation looked then. Grim. Image
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7 Jan
277 new #covid19sverige deaths reported by Folkhälsomyndigheten today, taking the total to 9262. The data includes a death added to January 4 2020, I am assuming this is an error and should be January 4 2021.

Outside of that, oldest change +1 to Dec 1, largest +31 (Dec 17.
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6 Jan
Now, the the instructions I've received on my responsibilities as someone who has tested positive. It was issued by the Swedish Medical Association and I was given it in Swedish. The link said it was available in other languages, but no information at all on how to obtain it.
My Swedish is OK, but it's pretty heavy going. As a PDF there's no simple translate button as many have for websites either.

Not that you want automatic translators dispensing critical medical advice! So we're left with my bad translation. 😶

slf.se/smittskyddslak…
It says Covid-19 is a virus infection that's usually mild, but a few people get it seriously, lists the well known symptoms.

Explains it spreads through droplets, that when you cough or sneeze they get in the air and then can land on people close by or on surfaces or objects.
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