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link Published 27 November 2020
Statistics show that 89% of Sweden’s covid-19 deaths were in people over 69. During the first six months of 2020 over 2000 people died in nursing homes as a result of what Sweden’s Health and Social Care Inspectorate, Ivo, described as “serious failings,” including a lack of protective equipment and inadequate access to doctors. “These fatalities could have been prevented,” Paludan told The BMJ.
In contrast, Norway, with about half the population of Sweden, has had 267 deaths from covid-19, with 90% in people over the age of 70. In similarly sized Denmark, 697 people have died from covid-19, and the country has surprisingly registered the lowest number of deaths in its population for six years, according to Statens Serum Institut, the national infectious diseases agency.
Scandinavian approaches
“The Swedish approach taught us what to do and what not to do in other Nordic countries,” says Søren Riis Paludan, professor of biomedicine at Aarhus University in Denmark. “Now we don’t have to go into lockdown but know where to be more careful, particularly with the elderly.”Statistics show that 89% of Sweden’s covid-19 deaths were in people over 69. During the first six months of 2020 over 2000 people died in nursing homes as a result of what Sweden’s Health and Social Care Inspectorate, Ivo, described as “serious failings,” including a lack of protective equipment and inadequate access to doctors. “These fatalities could have been prevented,” Paludan told The BMJ.
In contrast, Norway, with about half the population of Sweden, has had 267 deaths from covid-19, with 90% in people over the age of 70. In similarly sized Denmark, 697 people have died from covid-19, and the country has surprisingly registered the lowest number of deaths in its population for six years, according to Statens Serum Institut, the national infectious diseases agency.
