Search Tag: herd immunity
Portugals-eligible-population-is-98-vaccinated
2021 03 Oct
Last January, Portugal’s healthcare system was undergoing collapse, with hospitals overflowing and intensive care beds running out. At that time, Portugal’s COVID-19 incidence peaked at 164 per 100,000 (28 January), but Portugal had fewer ICU beds per 100,000 than the rest of Europe. Since Portugal’s ICU could only accommodate 672 COVID-19 patients,...Read more
Covid-19-immunity-based-strategies-are-flawed
2020 16 Oct
Public health measures aiming to achieve ‘herd immunity’ are criticised by a multidisciplinary group of researchers who call it "a dangerous fallacy unsupported by the scientific evidence". You might also like: Global COVID-19 Response: “A Collective Failure” In the John Snow Memorandum , an open letter published in The...Read more
Management-of-covid-19-pandemic-the-swedish-perspective
2020 28 Sep
Among all countries affected by COVID-19, the Swedish pandemic strategy has polarised the political and global media response, where both condemning and acknowledging voices are heard. The question thus arises whether the Swedish approach is unique, and what reasoning leads to this strategy. This report does not discuss the outcome or validity of...Read more
Covid-19-global-response-strengths-weaknesses-success-and-failure
2020 11 Aug
An overview of the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic – the success of South Korea, the so-called herd-immunity experiment of Sweden and the not-so-brilliant COVID-19 management in the U.K. and the U.S. South Korea's Successful Three-Phased Response to COVID-19 COVID-19 has created havoc around the globe. Some countries have...Read more