Sweden Brings in Rule of Eight Per Table
Sweden has spiked past the US in Covid cases per million.
Once a model of doing little, Sweden Brings in Rule of Eight for Diners.
Sweden has limited to eight per table the number of people sitting together in cafes and restaurants, amid a sharp rise in coronavirus infections.
“We have a very serious situation,” Prime Minister Stefan Löfven warned, saying the virus was “going in the wrong direction”.
Sweden has reported 31 Covid deaths since Friday, taking the death toll to 5,969 – far higher than its neighbours.
Mr Löfven also announced stricter recommendations – including working from home if possible and avoiding public transport – for another three regions: Halland, Örebro and Jönköping,
More than 134,000 people have been infected in the Scandinavian country since the start of the pandemic.
Other European Developments
- France has reported 854 deaths linked to Covid-19 in the past 24 hours. It’s the country’s highest daily death toll since mid-April and double the figure recorded on Monday
- The Netherlands is introducing extra lockdown measures. Museums, cinemas, sex clubs and other public places will close for two weeks. A “rule of two” applies outdoors, and households are allowed a maximum of two guests a day
- Germany’s health minister warned that the country was in a crucial phase of its fight against the outbreak, after it entered a month-long “lockdown light” on Monday
- The number of people dying in the UK is more than 10% above normal levels – with almost all of the excess linked to Covid, official figures showed
- Greece expanded a night curfew on movement, shutting restaurants, theatres and museums in the most populous regions – including the capital Athens – for a month
- New lockdowns come into force at midnight in Portugal, too, affecting around 70% of the country’s population
New Deaths Per Million
In order, Spain, France, Italy, the UK, the US, and Germany lead in new deaths per million.
Those six countries all have over 1 death per million.
Spain, France, Italy, and the UK lead the way with 8.1, 6.4, 3.9, and 2.0 deaths per million.
The US is in fifth place in this group at 1.7 deaths per million.
It is impossible to post every country on that chart.
I selected the largest countries in the EU plus Sweden, the US, Canada, and Asian countries at the low end of the scale for comparison purposes.
Mish
Mish, you are really losing your readers. Read the comments. What happened to your balanced analysis?
There is a second wave of cases in Sweden with a peak of 2.5 times the first case peak.
But the second wave has a death rate to case rate about 10 percent of the first wave.
To understand that mucosal IgA is created by accidental intestinal exposure in the first wave. So that the immune systems in the community respond faster in the second wave due to prior intestinal exposure. So low dose exposure in food and drink is creating low-level immunity and lower severity and much lower death.See http://www.digestivecovid.com
http://www.antivirusair.com
The WHO has a food safety policy that states generally safe to eat food with SARS-coV-2. The coronavirus you breathe makes you sick. The coronavirus you eat helps immunity. Don’t inhale coronavirus. Digest it process it build IgA to protect the lungs.
Can I get COVID-19 from eating fresh foods, like fruits and vegetables?
There is currently no evidence that people can catch COVID-19 from food, including fruits and vegetables. Fresh fruits and vegetables are part of a healthy diet and their consumption should be encouraged. Read more in the COVID-19 and food safety: guidance for food businesses.
I read that frozen fish was a vector…..so maybe I should eat more salmon? My wife keeps telling me that anyway.
It seems like this information could lead to a preventive strategy if a reliable means of ingesting the virus without breathing it could be figured out….and what the amount needed to be.
Interesting intel….thanks for posting.
People have been wearing masks around here in record numbers the past 6 weeks.
Even outside on their bicycles at 3am with nobody within 200 meters.
The outcome has been an unprecedented numbers of tests, and now even stricter lockdown measures.
If you want to watch for evidence of herd immunity, the first states where you will see it should be North and South Dakota, where about 6% of the population has tested positive. If herd immunity kicks in, their daily cases should start dropping, but so far, have not.
For a smaller sample, I’m watching Clay County in my state, Nebraska. It has a population of 654. So far they have 202 positive tests, so about 30% of the population. Are cases slowing? You’d think, but no. They have 69 positive tests in the last 2 weeks. At that rate, in another 5 weeks, they will hit 80%, and should have herd immunity, one way or the other.
All Trump’s fault.
Yes, they are having a fall spike that is still lower than most of the EU. They are still having cases, but country after country is passing them up in deaths per million. Sweeden is currently at 17 (not great) but France with mask orders, lockdowns and rule after rule will pass them within days. And we have to get through another winter to see how this will pan out with neighboring countries – my guess they will catch-up in cases/hospitalizations but not deaths since we have reduced compilation death by 70% since April – treatments are better.
Plus, the measures seem reasonable since most are recommendations (which are more effective than orders) and tables of 8 at 100% full restaurants are as about as minimal as it gets.
Portugal (where I am) is different also. The measures in spring were not draconian and reduced infections to a low that carried through summer after they were lifted. Spain had very harsh restrictions in spring and infections took off over summer when those were lifted and have not stopped since, Spain now going into a six month state of emergency that only requires congessional account every two months which overrides the constitutional requirement of a renewal every two weeks – basically the political class don’t want to be visible etc. and have assigned themselves maximum power.
For Portugal I think there has been some spillover from Spain, I would have made entry requisits stricter but it’s not my show. The big cities in the north (Lisbon and Porto) have around 70% of infections, they have kept high infection neighbourhoods in semi-lockdown the whole time. This has been expanded just recently to a list of other localities with high infection rates, given the whole country was through summer at around 500 infections a day, started upwards in September and the last week jumped to over 4000 per day. Still, the actions seem within reason and targeted – it’s a shame they didn’t contain the new outbreak in advance, but I suppose with school and winter it was close to inevitable and they just act afterwards to contain it depending on how it goes.
In Spain the whole show is chaotic and antagonistic, creating a lot of insecurity at many levels (rights, economy, political, safety etc.)
I saw something once that Somalis in Sweden disproportionally contribute to the statistics as they live in multigenerational households. Is that still true?
I feel quite ‘offended’ Mish, you forgot to mention Belgium, my little Belgium, we are definitely ‘the Big Champion’, heading for 12000 deaths as we are, on a 11 mln population…. Btw, we all tend to wear masks and keep distance when necessary…except university students that is, I live near the famous university city of Leuven, know what I am talking about…..and then there s Brussels and Antwerp with a vast proportion of, not willing to integrate, immigrants( Maghrebis most of them) not giving a fck about the measures…
Paging scott atlas
“Paging scott atlas”
Paging Dr. Fauci.
Daily Beast:
“What’s particularly troubling about the return of COVID in Italy is that the country has done everything experts like Dr. Anthony Fauci have been
advising. Face masks in public places have been compulsory for months, social distancing is strongly enforced, nightclubs have never reopened,
and sporting arenas are at less than a third of capacity. Children who are back at school are regularly tested and strictly social-distanced, and yet,
the second wave seems completely unstoppable.”
Look at spikes in suicide, attempted suicide and psychosis of one form ot another. Total tragedy, unreported, severe psychological pain.k
Provide numbers and stats from reputable sources to back up that comment.
…But enough about the zerohedge crowd.
You, sir, win the Coffee-Spit-Monitor Award today.
It really is sad when basic public health measures–masking, distancing, testing and tracing–are controversial.
And because the effectiveness of those are doubted and those measures are ignored, shut-down becomes the only option to prevent the collapse of the medical system and overwhelming the health-care workers.
Ohhh, the shutdowns are soooo bad…
So then wear an effing mask, keep your distance, don’t spend a lot of time indoors in contact with people you don’t know, push to fund effective and uniform testing, and support tracing.
Otherwise we have to go through another shitshow shutdown.
“It really is sad when basic public health measures–masking, distancing, testing and tracing–are controversial.”
Did you see the study from July 1-29, 2020?
70% of the people treated for Covid at 11 clinics, said they had always worn a cloth face cover or mask during the two weeks prior to onset of illness.
Dr. Fauci himself, initially said that masks don’t work, anyway.
“A CDC study of two Korean flights showed that even asymptomatic passengers could and did spread COVID-19 to other passengers even though
each passenger was given an N95 mask, and staff members followed strict infection-control procedures at the airport and in the air overseen by
the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”
So yes, there is controversy.
Even more controversy, via The Daily Beast: “What’s particularly troubling about the return of COVID in Italy is that the country has done everything experts like Dr. Anthony Fauci have been advising. Face masks in public places have been compulsory for months, social distancing is strongly enforced, nightclubs have never reopened, and sporting arenas are at less than a third of capacity. Children who are back at school are regularly tested and strictly social-distanced, and yet,
the second wave seems completely unstoppable.”
Italy did what experts advised, and yet… “the second wave seems completely unstoppable.”
The reason “masks don’t work” is that most people inside a household, and that includes roommates unrelated to each other, don’t wear masks. Masks protect against strangers, but if you’re not wearing a mask and having intercourse, literally or figuratively, with a household member who’s got Covid-19, you will also catch C-19.