Swedish ER doctor Sebastian Rushworth has told Sky News the only situation where it “makes sense to lockdown society completely” is if the country is willing to stay entirely closed until a vaccine is available.
Dr Rushworth said there isn’t a single COVID patient being treated in his hospital which indicates the country has “reached the state of herd immunity”.
“That’s the only reasonable explanation that I can find”.
Dr Rushworth said at the beginning of the pandemic in Sweden, his emergency room was full of coronavirus patients which lasted around a month.
“After a month or so, things started to taper off, and they’ve been tapering off ever since. I haven’t seen a single COVID patient in more than six weeks now”.
Some emerging reports seem to endorse the herd immunity strategy utilised by Sweden, which has now recorded far fewer deaths per capita than the United Kingdom while maintaining basic freedoms and a far milder recession.
Former Swedish State Epidemiologist Professor Johan Giesecke warned a major lockdown would simply destroy the economy and leave the population without herd immunity and permanently vulnerable to future COVID-19 outbreaks.
