This is a very brief posting which I hope will cause us all to ponder the wisdom (or lack thereof) of Europe's response to the pandemic.
First, here is a graphic from Our World In Data showing the daily new confirmed COVID-19 deaths per million people for most nations in Europe:
Second, here is a graphic showing the daily new confirmed COVID-19 deaths per million people for Sweden (the nation that led the world in a non-lockdown response to the pandemic) and Europe as a whole for comparison:
Interesting, isn't it? So much for that fourth wave!
Perhaps there really is something to having let a nation's population develop natural immunity to the SARS-CoV-2 virus that will continue to pay off in the long-term.
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Encouraging vaccine skepticism and hesitancy in a tribal way comes with health risks.
ReplyDelete1-It's more representative to compare to Nordic countries:
https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2020-03-01..latest&facet=none&pickerSort=asc&pickerMetric=location&Metric=Confirmed+deaths&Interval=7-day+rolling+average&Relative+to+Population=true&Color+by+test+positivity=false&country=SWE~FIN~NOR~DNK
Verdict: much poorer covid disease burden in Sweden
2-The European Union's covid numbers have been skewed by countries with low vaccination coverage and they have suffered (and will continue to suffer) as a result:
https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2020-03-01..latest&facet=none&pickerSort=desc&pickerMetric=new_deaths_per_million&Metric=Confirmed+deaths&Interval=7-day+rolling+average&Relative+to+Population=true&Color+by+test+positivity=false&country=BGR~SVK~HUN~POL~European+Union~SWE
and
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-people-fully-vaccinated-covid?country=European+Union~SWE~POL~SVK~HUN~BGR
So who's paying the highest price (covid disease burden) for the paths chosen vs unwarranted vaccine doubts?