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| Britain's Covid-19 lockdown was futile, says Swedish epidemiologist |
| 2020-05-08 |
| [Telegraph] Johan Giesecke, who helped shape Sweden's approach to coronavirus, says lockdown does not protect vulnerable in care homes. The architect of Sweden's coronavirus strategy has claimed the UK's lockdown has been largely "futile" in containing the virus. Johan Giesecke, a state epidemiologist who advises the World Health Organisation, said the UK's death toll suggested instating harsh social restrictions was not the best method of tackling the pandemic. Sweden has so far refused to impose the type of lockdown seen in other European countries, keeping many schools, restaurants and businesses open. The UK’s death toll is more than 10 times that of that in Sweden, where fewer than 3,000 people have been killed by Covid-19 to date. Referring to the high coronavirus death toll across UK care homes, Prof Giesecke said: "A hard lockdown does not protect old and frail people living in care homes – a population the lockdown was designed to protect.... |
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