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En el diario sueco SVD, un profesor emérito del prestigioso Karolinska Institutet escribe lo siguiente
"Drive over FHM (de Tegnell) and advocate masks"
Even if the mouth guards can "only" save a few hundred lives in Sweden, it is worth recommending them, writes Gösta Gahrton, Emeritus Professor of Medicine.
el bichito-19 is now spreading at breakneck speed. Among the Nordic countries, Sweden is in the lead. According to the European Center for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC), Sweden has a spread of infection that is ten times as fast as in Finland, four times as fast as in Norway and twice as fast as in Denmark. In Sweden, 6,164 people have died from the disease according to Thursday's update from the Swedish Public Health Agency. The spread of infection is also increasing in most other countries, not least in the rest of Europe, the USA and India. My friends in the United States, who have also not succeeded very well in slowing down the spread of infection under the influence of their president, are concerned about the Swedish scandal, which in many respects, according to them, can be compared to their own.
Drastic measures have been taken in most countries, while Sweden is now, as before, in its own right in several respects. One of the most striking deviations from the actions of the outside world is that a recommendation is not issued to wear a mask. Many in the medical profession do not understand this. Both ECDC and the World Health Organization WHO have analyzed the scientific documentation and come to the conclusion that masks should be used. It has been estimated that many hundreds of thousands of lives could be saved if such a recommendation was amowed. A few days ago, the secretary of the Academy of Sciences went into public service and had come to the same conclusion. Lena Einhorn recently summarized in Svenska Dagbladet the arguments for the use of masks. Recently, researchers at the University Hospital analyzed el bichito-19 bichito in the ventilation system at the hospital and found bichito spread far from the infected patients. Their conclusion is that masks may help.
After the high death rates in Swedish nursing homes in the beginning of the pandemic, the staff demanded mouth protection and made a report to the Swedish Work Environment Authority. After some rounds, it was decided that masks and visors would be used to protect the staff. The significance of the measure is, according to the expertise within the infectious disease medical profession and among virologists, probably greater to protect the elderly.
The Swedish Public Health Agency has already advised against the use of masks during the first phase of the pandemic. The unrealistic arguments that one would touch with hands more in the face and that this would increase the spread of infection do not hold. Despite the continued overwhelming documentation of the value of wearing mouth guards in a number of situations, on buses and subways, in shops and at the permitted events with 50 people, the Swedish Public Health Agency maintains through state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell that “there is no reason to change the current strategy ”. With a rapidly increasing spread of infection that goes ten times faster than in our nearest neighbor, one can only be surprised by such a statement.
It is high time that the government, Stefan Löfven and Lena Hallengren, put their foot down, and listen to WHO, ECDC and other countries' experts. We are not always the best in the world. To claim that the Public Health Agency's strategy is good is a lie. Even if the masks can "only" save a few hundred lives in Sweden, it is worth recommending them.
Gösta Gahrton
Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet
"Drive over FHM (de Tegnell) and advocate masks"
Even if the mouth guards can "only" save a few hundred lives in Sweden, it is worth recommending them, writes Gösta Gahrton, Emeritus Professor of Medicine.
el bichito-19 is now spreading at breakneck speed. Among the Nordic countries, Sweden is in the lead. According to the European Center for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC), Sweden has a spread of infection that is ten times as fast as in Finland, four times as fast as in Norway and twice as fast as in Denmark. In Sweden, 6,164 people have died from the disease according to Thursday's update from the Swedish Public Health Agency. The spread of infection is also increasing in most other countries, not least in the rest of Europe, the USA and India. My friends in the United States, who have also not succeeded very well in slowing down the spread of infection under the influence of their president, are concerned about the Swedish scandal, which in many respects, according to them, can be compared to their own.
Drastic measures have been taken in most countries, while Sweden is now, as before, in its own right in several respects. One of the most striking deviations from the actions of the outside world is that a recommendation is not issued to wear a mask. Many in the medical profession do not understand this. Both ECDC and the World Health Organization WHO have analyzed the scientific documentation and come to the conclusion that masks should be used. It has been estimated that many hundreds of thousands of lives could be saved if such a recommendation was amowed. A few days ago, the secretary of the Academy of Sciences went into public service and had come to the same conclusion. Lena Einhorn recently summarized in Svenska Dagbladet the arguments for the use of masks. Recently, researchers at the University Hospital analyzed el bichito-19 bichito in the ventilation system at the hospital and found bichito spread far from the infected patients. Their conclusion is that masks may help.
After the high death rates in Swedish nursing homes in the beginning of the pandemic, the staff demanded mouth protection and made a report to the Swedish Work Environment Authority. After some rounds, it was decided that masks and visors would be used to protect the staff. The significance of the measure is, according to the expertise within the infectious disease medical profession and among virologists, probably greater to protect the elderly.
The Swedish Public Health Agency has already advised against the use of masks during the first phase of the pandemic. The unrealistic arguments that one would touch with hands more in the face and that this would increase the spread of infection do not hold. Despite the continued overwhelming documentation of the value of wearing mouth guards in a number of situations, on buses and subways, in shops and at the permitted events with 50 people, the Swedish Public Health Agency maintains through state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell that “there is no reason to change the current strategy ”. With a rapidly increasing spread of infection that goes ten times faster than in our nearest neighbor, one can only be surprised by such a statement.
It is high time that the government, Stefan Löfven and Lena Hallengren, put their foot down, and listen to WHO, ECDC and other countries' experts. We are not always the best in the world. To claim that the Public Health Agency's strategy is good is a lie. Even if the masks can "only" save a few hundred lives in Sweden, it is worth recommending them.
Gösta Gahrton
Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet
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