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"Sweden never aimed at herd immunity", a thread (1/n)
Herd immunity in April/no, in May/no, in June/no, when the last light of Durin's Day will shine upon the Lonely Mountain (2/n)
"Herd immunity can be more effective than a vaccine" (3/n)
Strategy (4/n)
(a personal fav of mine) "goal = herd immunity" literally in the middle of a slide (5/n)
First effects of herd immunity in April, according to Tegnell (6/n)
Very promising (7/n)
Ok, maybe a bit later on (8/n)
Ok, maybe a bit later on (9/n)
Ok, maybe a bit later on (10/n)
"the people who are frail and old will die first. And when that group of people is sort of thinned out, you will get less deaths as well" (Johan Giesecke, min 10:02) (11/n)
"I think the virus will sweep like a storm over Sweden and infect basically everyone in one or two months (..) It will end when enough people get infected and then immune, so that the virus has nowhere to go (the so called 'herd immunity')" (Johan Giesecke, March 13th) (12/n)
"Almost all Norrbotten residents will be affected by the coronavirus in some form before flock immunity arises", according to infection control doctor Anders Nystedt. https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/norrbotten/nastan-alla-norrbottningar-drabbas (13/n)
"The Swedish slogan should be 'Get infected at the right pace' " (March 27th) (14/n)
(Swedish ambassador to the US, min. 3:20) "right now we know that Stockholm has about 25% of herd immunity" (whatever that's supposed to mean) https://video.foxnews.com/v/6154832181001?fbclid=IwAR33PUUeA2zl-NJdghGGno5ltDefLGjLaNPL3Tl0n9v0PWHvrn_BAjUBsLQ#sp=show-clips (15/n)
"Herd immunity is how you control the pandemic" (prof. Matti Sällberg in March) (16/n)
"And that's when we approach flock immunity" (Tom Britton, April 20th) (17/n)
"One point in favor of keeping schools open is that we would reach herd immunity faster" (Anders Tegnell, March 14th) (thanks to @marteneriksson & @paulaclp for the contribution)
(18/n)
(18/n)
"I think all countries, all epidemiologists you talk to will agree that herd immunity is the one thing that will eventually slow down the spread of this virus, nothing else will slow it down in the long term" (min 1:06) (19/n)
"This is how we succeed with herd immunity", Jan Albert, April 24th (20/n)
"It is not possible to stop an airborne infection. It will only end once we have achieved herd immunity"
J. Giesecke, April 19th
4 months later the official FHM guidelines still claim that "the most common way of spreading infection is through our hands"
(via @lo_malin) (21/n)
J. Giesecke, April 19th
4 months later the official FHM guidelines still claim that "the most common way of spreading infection is through our hands"
(via @lo_malin) (21/n)
Option 1: 4 weeks lockdown
Option 2: track, trace, quarantine
Option 3: let the virus spread to achieve an hypothetical herd immunity
"We evaluated all options and ultimately chose option n.3"
(Anders Tegnell, March 15th 2020)
(22/n)
Option 2: track, trace, quarantine
Option 3: let the virus spread to achieve an hypothetical herd immunity
"We evaluated all options and ultimately chose option n.3"
(Anders Tegnell, March 15th 2020)
(22/n)
"Today on DN (Swedish daily) they apparently deny that herd immunity exists. The whole world went crazy"
Anders Tegnell, March 19th 2020
(23/n)
Anders Tegnell, March 19th 2020
(23/n)
“We also need to understand that this complete lockdown has had a big effect, it actually stopped the epidemic in many countries..."
Anders Tegnell, May 8th 2020
(24/n, part 1) https://twitter.com/jorgenponder/status/1348550212768288773
Anders Tegnell, May 8th 2020
(24/n, part 1) https://twitter.com/jorgenponder/status/1348550212768288773
"...Austria, Finland among them, they are now having maybe 1% of the population who had the disease, which means that 99% of the population is susceptible to the disease”
(24/n, part 2)
(24/n, part 2)
"The disadvantage of a complete lockdown is that there is not much spread of infection..."
Anders Wallensten, Sweden's deputy state epidemiologist, April 23rd 2020
(25/n) https://twitter.com/bjornsing/status/1342631941783384067
Anders Wallensten, Sweden's deputy state epidemiologist, April 23rd 2020
(25/n) https://twitter.com/bjornsing/status/1342631941783384067
"We sat in meetings with the Prime Minister and heads of responsible authorities who discussed the benefits of a greater spread of infection, saying that we would achieve immunity faster than other countries"
Ebba Busch, KD leader, January 13th 2021
(26/n)
Ebba Busch, KD leader, January 13th 2021
(26/n)
