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padding: 0px; width: 642.59375px; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">By <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: 700;" class="">Marcello Ferrada de Noli</span>, Swedish professor emeritus of public health sciences esp. epidemiology, former Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School.</em></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: 700;" class=""><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""></em></span></p></div><div class="summary article__summary " style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif;">With a coronavirus death rate that is among the world’s worst and shocking stories of neglect emerging from the country’s care homes, Sweden’s political and healthcare leaders have a lot to answer for.</div><div class=" article__text text" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px;" class="">One of the most notable features of the Covid-19 pandemic has been the different ways countries across the world have responded. This has obviously resulted in varying outcomes. Some nations have fared reasonably well. Others less so. And some, such as Sweden, have had a terrible time.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px;" class="">On May 14, it achieved the unenviable record of having the highest number of confirmed daily Covid-19 deaths per capita reported<a href="https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-covid-deaths-per-million-7-day-average?tab=map" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(4, 79, 170); background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""> over a seven-day rolling period</a>.</p><a class="read-more-big" href="https://www.rt.com/news/488968-sweden-model-excessive-deaths/" target="_blank" style="margin: 30px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(4, 79, 170); text-decoration: none; display: block; width: 642.59375px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); transition: opacity 0.2s ease; transform: translateZ(0px); background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="read-more-big__container" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: flex; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-flow: row nowrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important;"><span class="read-more-big__content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 16px 16px 32px; display: flex; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-flow: column nowrap; -webkit-box-flex: 0; flex: 0 0 33.33000183105469%; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="read-more-big__subtitle" style="margin: 0px 0px 60px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: 700; font-size: 16px;">ALSO ON RT.COM</span><span class="read-more-big__title" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: 700; font-size: 26px; line-height: 1.2;">‘Swedish model’ of no-lockdown response to Covid-19 ‘WORKED REGARDLESS OF EXCESSIVE DEATHS,’ its architect says</span></span><span class="lazyloaded read-more-big__cover" data-bgset="
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" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 204.984375px; display: flex; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex: 1 0 auto; -webkit-background-size: cover; background-size: cover; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 300ms; -webkit-transition: opacity 300ms; background-image: url(https://cdni.rt.com/files/2020.05/thumbnail/5ec2804020302731b531a932.JPG); background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"></span></span></a><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px;" class="">The chief epidemiologist at Sweden’s public health agency Anders Tegnell admitted that such a high death toll is “<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/sweden-coronavirus-deaths-children-lockdown-1502548" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(4, 79, 170); background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">horrifying</a></em>” – a dramatic change of tack from earlier in the crisis, when he claimed that the body count was perhaps “<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><a href="https://www.tellerreport.com/news/2020-04-25-tegnell--it-is-a-pleasure-to-only-look-at-the-death-toll.r1GCX6v-KU.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(4, 79, 170); background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">not the most important</a> part.</em>”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px;" class="">These results come, remember, from a country that was targeting<a href="https://www.newsweek.com/sweden-stockholm-coronavirus-herd-immunity-reinfection-1500342" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(4, 79, 170); background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""> herd immunity</a> and, according to its ambassador to the US, Karin Ulrika Olofsdotter, believed it could be reached sometime in May in Stockholm.</p><h2 style="margin: 1.2em 0px 0.4em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.15em;" class="">Sick and dying</h2><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px;" class="">Besides the dramatic number of fatalities, what is emerging in Sweden is a dreadful catalog of inappropriate healthcare provided for the elderly, with sick and dying people denied resources which should be widely available.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px;" class="">It is worth noting that<a href="https://www.socialstyrelsen.se/om-socialstyrelsen/pressrum/press/ny-statistik-om-smittade-och-avlidna-i-covid-19-70-ar-och-aldre/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(4, 79, 170); background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""> 90 percent</a> of the total Covid-19 deaths in the country are of people aged 70 and older, and that<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-08/sweden-starts-criminal-probe-into-care-home-after-virus-deaths" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(4, 79, 170); background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""> half of these</a> occurred in nursing homes. There is, for example, one case under<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-08/sweden-starts-criminal-probe-into-care-home-after-virus-deaths" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(4, 79, 170); background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""> investigation</a> by prosecutors of a care home in Stockholm where over a third of the elderly who lived there reportedly died after coronavirus ran amok. </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px;" class="">In a<a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/05/07/treatment-swedens-old-vulnerable-catastrophe/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(4, 79, 170); background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""> piece</a> titled ‘<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">The treatment of Sweden’s old and vulnerable is a ‘catastrophe</em>’’, the Telegraph reports the story of a local Stockholm politician, Bjorn Branngard, who got a call from the nurse in charge of the care home where his mother was. The nurse asked him if it was ok to move his mother to another section. “<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">Why?</em>” inquired Branngard, “<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">Because it’s only her and one other person who is still alive. Everyone else is dead,</em>” she said. Eventually, his mother died too, just a few days later, said the report.</p><a class="read-more-big" href="https://www.rt.com/op-ed/485522-sweden-coronavirus-worst-death-count/" target="_blank" style="margin: 30px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(4, 79, 170); text-decoration: none; display: block; width: 642.59375px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); transition: opacity 0.2s ease; transform: translateZ(0px); background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="read-more-big__container" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: flex; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-flow: row nowrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important;"><span class="read-more-big__content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 16px 16px 32px; display: flex; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-flow: column nowrap; -webkit-box-flex: 0; flex: 0 0 33.33000183105469%; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="read-more-big__subtitle" style="margin: 0px 0px 60px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: 700; font-size: 16px;">ALSO ON RT.COM</span><span class="read-more-big__title" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: 700; font-size: 26px; line-height: 1.2;">Sweden’s flawed coronavirus battle plan hits the poor & elderly, resulting in worst death count among Nordic countries</span></span><span class="lazyloaded read-more-big__cover" data-bgset="
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" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 204.984375px; display: flex; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex: 1 0 auto; -webkit-background-size: cover; background-size: cover; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 300ms; -webkit-transition: opacity 300ms; background-image: url(https://cdni.rt.com/files/2020.04/thumbnail/5e90ad8885f5405b3543e425.jpg); background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"></span></span></a><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px;" class="">To their credit, some health workers have been prepared to speak out on the shocking treatment given to the elderly. As I reported in the<a href="https://theindicter.com/how-deceptive-non-epidemiological-and-anti-human-is-swedens-covid-19-strategy/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(4, 79, 170); background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""> Indicter</a>, registered Nurse Latifa Lofvenberg witnessed the demise of many patients living in care homes, and told of how they were<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mm5rBvbr0c" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(4, 79, 170); background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""> denied oxygen</a> to aid their respiratory problems, resulting in “<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">horrible</em>” deaths. Her bravery in exposing this led to her being<a href="https://nyhetsbyran.org/2020/05/05/sjukskoterska-fick-sparken-efter-larm-om-att-aldre-nekas-syrgas/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(4, 79, 170); background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""> fired from her job</a> after her comments were posted on YouTube.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px;" class="">Confirmation of this macabre practice was given by a respected professor of geriatric medicine, Yngve Gustafson, in an<a href="https://www.tv4play.se/program/nyheterna/12695515" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(4, 79, 170); background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""> interview</a> on TV Channel 4. He admitted, “<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">What most often is done with the elderly at nursery homes, after deciding not to take them to the hospital, is that they prescribe palliatives usually including both morphine and midazolam. This means that one quickly suffocates the patients, because both drugs deteriorate breathing.</em>” </p><h2 style="margin: 1.2em 0px 0.4em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.15em;" class="">Hospital complaints</h2><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px;" class="">But it’s not only in care homes that discriminatory healthcare behavior against the elderly been observed. It has also taken place in hospitals, according to a growing number of reports filed with the Swedish Health and Social Care Inspectorate (IVO).</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px;" class="">These complaints surround patients denied treatment at intensive care units (ICU) at hospitals in the Stockholm Region, despite places being available (as they still are). IVO has<a href="https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/larm-om-att-patienter-prioriteras-bort-ivo-gor-tillsyn-pa-karolinska" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(4, 79, 170); background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""> described</a> the reports – which also concern the Karolinska University in Solna – as “<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">serious</em>.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px;" class="">One complaint filed with IVO was also published in the newspaper Expressen.<a href="https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/karolinska-misstanks-prioriterat-bort-njursjuka-covidpatienter/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(4, 79, 170); background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""> It read</a>: “<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">We are concerned about the process of selection for respiratory care among patients with severe Covid-19 infection in the Stockholm region. We have repeatedly found that those patients who are deemed to be in need of respiratory care for a long time (e.g. a couple of weeks) are denied intensive care with the argument that a younger patient with better prognosis may need the place in a few days.</em>”</p><a class="read-more-big" href="https://www.rt.com/op-ed/486175-swedish-professor-quotes-covid19-russian-propaganda/" target="_blank" style="margin: 30px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(4, 79, 170); text-decoration: none; display: block; width: 642.59375px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); transition: opacity 0.2s ease; transform: translateZ(0px); background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="read-more-big__container" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: flex; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-flow: row nowrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important;"><span class="read-more-big__content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 16px 16px 32px; display: flex; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-flow: column nowrap; -webkit-box-flex: 0; flex: 0 0 33.33000183105469%; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="read-more-big__subtitle" style="margin: 0px 0px 60px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: 700; font-size: 16px;">ALSO ON RT.COM</span><span class="read-more-big__title" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: 700; font-size: 26px; line-height: 1.2;">So one Swedish academic quotes another Swedish academic on flaws of Sweden's Covid-19 policy... and that’s RUSSIAN propaganda?</span></span><span class="lazyloaded read-more-big__cover" data-bgset="
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" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 204.984375px; display: flex; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex: 1 0 auto; -webkit-background-size: cover; background-size: cover; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 300ms; -webkit-transition: opacity 300ms; background-image: url(https://cdni.rt.com/files/2020.04/thumbnail/5e9a0bb885f5407aa776d803.JPG); background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"></span></span></a><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px;" class=""><a href="https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/stockholm/patienter-i-behov-av-intensivvard-kan-felaktigt-ha-prioriterats-bort" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(4, 79, 170); background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">According</a> to Dr Elda Sparrelid, Stockholm Region chief physician, there is no patient data linked to the cases claimed by the filing doctors. “<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">Therefore, it cannot be investigated whether someone received the wrong care or not,</em>” she added.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px;" class="">The situation emerged after the National Board of Health and Welfare issued instructions – described in an<a href="https://www.rt.com/op-ed/485522-sweden-coronavirus-worst-death-count/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(4, 79, 170); background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""> earlier</a> article – to handle priorities in case the ICUs reached “<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">disaster</em>” mode, where resources would be depleted and no longer available to all. </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px;" class="">But Swedish hospitals have not been in that critical situation, and ICU beds have remained available. ICU head at Karolinska Hospital, Dr Bjorn Persson,<a href="https://www.tagesschau.de/faktenfinder/corona-schweden-intensivmedizin-101.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(4, 79, 170); background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""> admitted</a> on May 5 that only “<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">around 115 of the 140 available intensive care beds are currently occupied.</em>” Nevertheless, while Chief Doctor Persson denied that patients “<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">who had still had a chance of survival were not treated,</em>” medical staff members gave a different account, and IVO chief lawyer Linda Almqvist admitted it<a href="https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/larm-om-att-patienter-prioriteras-bort-ivo-gor-tillsyn-pa-karolinska" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(4, 79, 170); background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""> initiated an investigation</a>.</p><h2 style="margin: 1.2em 0px 0.4em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.15em;" class="">Delays in seeing doctors</h2><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px;" class="">Another problem has been that scores of elderly Swedes with Covid-19 have had to wait to receive health care at hospitals, or simply told to<a href="https://www.svd.se/lakare-flera-sjuka-borde-fatt-snabbare-sjukhusvard" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(4, 79, 170); background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""> stay at home</a> for an inappropriate length of time. Some have even died without ever getting the opportunity to<a href="https://www.etc.se/inrikes/avslojar-tiotals-dog-av-covid-19-pa-aldreboenden-fick-aldrig-traffa-lakare?sida=2" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(4, 79, 170); background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""> see a doctor.</a></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px;" class="">Further evidence of the neglect of the elderly in Sweden is the apparent determination of the local authorities to manipulate, or even cover up, the extent of the scandal. An<a href="https://ekuriren.se/artikel/wl6kyg9r" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(4, 79, 170); background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""> exposure</a> by a regional newspaper, Ekuriren, laid this bare: In eight out of nine municipalities in Sormland (south of Stockholm), it alleged that authorities “<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">deliberately withheld the information in order to prevent media scrutiny and public transparency</em>” regarding the number of elderly Covid-19 infected in care homes.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px;" class="">In summary, the management of the pandemic by the Swedish public health authorities is not only an affront to scientific epidemiology, but also compromises the medical ethics and human rights of a country that considers itself a “humanitarian superpower.” It's<a href="https://theindicter.com/how-deceptive-non-epidemiological-and-anti-human-is-swedens-covid-19-strategy/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(4, 79, 170); background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""> just as well</a> other countries have not followed suit.</p></div></div></body></html>