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If you've had lots of infection but relatively few deaths then you're probably further along the route to actually getting things back to (a hopefully better) normal. Ultimately that's what beating the pandemic will be.
Doesn't this just mean herd immunity-which I think it's fair to say has been roundly exposed as totally false without vaccination?
Sweden's model is based on letting the less at risk groups get it but protecting the vulnerable. In the same breath they admit they've failed to do that, and their death rate-like ours-reflects that failure. The position that "they're going to die sooner or later" again doesn't take into account the potential for finding a vaccine relatively quickly, and that, from everything I've read, is what the real key to "beating" the pandemic is.
Anyway, I posted it because it's interesting seeing the shape of each country's curve, I didn't make it. Folk really need to calm their fucking tits.
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Doesn't this just mean herd immunity-which I think it's fair to say has been roundly exposed as totally false without vaccination?
Has it? Anyway, it's not a call for a herd-immunity approach, it is an indication that you're actually some way to achieving it. If you've had a lot of infections with very few deaths then it indicates that you have managed to protect the most vulnerable while moving some way towards having the herd-immunity that will protect those people in the long-term. I'm not saying that any country has been able to achieve that, I'm suggesting that it's a better metric than number of cases per million.
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There's no scaling as far as I can tell, since they're only interested in the shape of the graphs. They do give a figure for cases per million, but on that basis Luxembourg and Iceland are complete failures despite having apparently "crushed" it. Norway and Austria are also in the same ballpark as the apparent failures.
Well kind of, but in some senses it's still too early to tell. It's really uncertain what will happen in those countries when lockdown is eased. My best guess at a measure of success would be deaths per cases per million. If you've had lots of infection but relatively few deaths then you're probably further along the route to actually getting things back to (a hopefully better) normal. Ultimately that's what beating the pandemic will be.