@BrodinPetter My son is 15. Barely missed a day of school until this year. He got Covid in January. He attended just 3 days and has failed more than half his subjects - he'd never failed before.
His doctor diagnosed him with #Longcovid, the children's clinic refused to even accept him.
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@BrodinPetter Saying they couldn't help him. She tried the adult respiratory clinic. Too you, they wouldn't accept him. She resent a referral to the children's clinic, but *didn't* mention long covid. 6 weeks ago they acknowledged they'd received the request. Nothing since.
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@BrodinPetter He was infected by a presymptomatic 10 yr old boy.
This reality happened despite us being assured that children don't transmit, children don't get sick, asymptomatic transmission is rare.
Reality says otherwise.
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@BrodinPetter The Swedish media - and many doctors - pushes the narrative this is "psychosocial", completely contrary to the scientific evidence. Longcovid sufferers are not just essentially ignored, they are marginalised and demeaned.
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@BrodinPetter And this group includes thousands of children, likely tens of thousands.
In addition, thousands of children lost parents, thousands more lost beloved grandparents, aunts, and uncles.
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@BrodinPetter What's the effect of this? What about the children who infected their parents, their grandparents?
Have you assessed the effect of this on children's wellbeing?
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@BrodinPetter How about the many thousands of kids, like my kids, who had to suffer the stress and concern of their father being in hospital with Covid - a place where, in January, 1 in 7 died, and more again die within 60 days.
Have you assessed the effect of this on children's wellbeing?
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@BrodinPetter Is this what you are grateful for? This "concern" for the wellbeing of children?
No concern if children are infected.
No concern if children get long-covid.
No concern if children fail school due to illness.
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@BrodinPetter No concern if children transmit and cause others to fall ill, or even die.
No concern over the loss of loved ones.
How exactly do you define "overall wellbeing", Petter?
Tell us, exactly what it is your grateful for, and how it's been assessed.
125 new #covid19sverige deaths reported this week and 35302 new confirmed infections for the 7 days until Thursday, decreases of about 7.5% compared to the previous 7-day period.
Total deaths now 14048.
Adjusting for date of death and reporting lag, deaths are at about 20/day.
By comparison, that's almost 3 times as many deaths as our Nordic neighbours reported in the past week - combined.
And about 4 times as many confirmed cases - combined.
It's the 1 year anniversary of the first reported death from Covid-19 in Sweden. 23 new deaths reported today, and a further 5300 new confirmed infections.
This is a dramatically higher death toll than our Nordic neighbours, who chose a suppression strategy - get cases down as much as possible - as opposed to Sweden's mitigation strategy - get cases down enough so that healthcare is not overwhelmed.
At the peaks of Wave 1 and Wave 2, Sweden was experiencing around 100 deaths/day from Covid-19. We continue to have around 20-30 deaths a day.
A brief update. 46 new #covid19sverige deaths and nearly 6000 new cases reported today, taking the total reported FHM death toll to 13088. All but 2 deaths are from the last 2 weeks. With lag considered, we are likely experiencing around 20-30 deaths/day at present.
With lag considered, we are likely experiencing between 20-30 deaths/day at present.
Nationally we're averaging approximately 4000 new cases per day.
34 new #covid19sverige deaths reported today, taking the total to 13042. There are 34 deaths with no date of death recorded. These deaths were spread fairly evening over the past 2 weeks, with only 2 deaths recorded earlier.
Now that the data is more or less complete, a slowdown in the rate of new deaths is clearly apparent from approx mid-Jan in the cumulative deaths data. This is approx 3 weeks after harder restrictions were put in place.
This is also clear on the 7 day average of mortality, with deaths declining significantly from Jan 14. While the last 2-3 weeks data remains incomplete, a clear slowing in the rate of decline is already apparent from approx Feb 14.
Prof Jonas @Ludvigsson yesterday posted a response to questions about why he signed the Great Barrington Declaration. I hope he doesn't mind but I've translated it in to English for those interested, followed by some comments.
First, I disagree with Prof Ludvigsson about "lockdowns", however you define them, not being useful unless implemented early. Stricter restrictions have led to significant declines in cases in country after country.
#covid19sverige update, Swedish media anti-oroa special edition.
58 new deaths reported today (138 on tuesday and 44 yesterday) taking the death toll to 12428.
Changes this week as far back as Nov 22 (moved to next day), but the majority of additions are in the past 2wks.
Growth in cumulative deaths continues to slow, reflecting a decrease in daily mortality
7 day rolling average mortality I've removed all updates from 2020 to simplify as Excel was complaining about it! Deaths averaging 90 or above from Dec 20 through now to Jan 15, down from a Christmas high of 99.