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Stockholm and London had the same rates of coronavirus infection before this summer, according to a new study, which casts even more doubt on the theory of collective immunity.
Unlike the highest European countries, Sweden has not implemented strict blocking measures in reaction to the COVID-19 outbreak, but rather allowed shops, bars and restaurants to remain largely open and academics to attend school.
The UK, like other countries, has imposed a national blockade, with the final offices of Boris Johnson’s government and the hotel industry, and restricting social contact between people.
Swedish state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell, who is widely identified as the architect of the country’s controversial reaction to the pandemic, justified Sweden’s reaction by saying that countries that imposed strict blockades would likely revel in giant waves later in the year, while Sweden would.be smaller.
In April, he predicted that in May, 40% of the population of Stockholm, the Swedish capital, would have developed antibodies opposed to coronavirus.
However, a study by university college london academics published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine estimated that the point of infection in Stockholm in April was around 17%, the same point as in London, according to research from the tests conducted.in the English capital in April and May.
The study poses another challenge to collective immunity: the theory that a population will be immune to coronavirus when at least 60% of others contract it.
Sweden opted for strict blocking measures on the component because this point of infection can be achieved in the foreseeable future.
Dr Simon Clarke, professor of cell microbiology at the University of Reading, told The Daily Mail: “Herd’s herbal immunity, generated by letting COVID-19 kill a population, would possibly have been a eccentric concept for some due to the lack of blocking or restriction of people’s freedoms, however, it was nothing more than a concept that lacked knowledge.
“The Swedish delight of expecting to achieve this goal, to responses from other Nordic countries, has been a great consistency with the number of infections and deaths consistent with the capita, in addition to an extended epidemic,” he continued.
“These effects are a healthy warning that eccentric concepts and theories require knowledge of support when people’s lives are at stake and should not be used to adapt to preconceived narratives.”
Another 5770 people in Sweden died after testing positive for coronavirus on Wednesday morning, making it one of the consistent per capita mortality rates in Europe.
The figure is much more consistent with that of neighbouring countries with political systems and social customs, and is more than five times higher than Denmark’s, more than 11 times that of Norway and almost 10 times that of Finland.
Lately, there is insufficient evidence that antibodies to coronavirus confer immunity to the virus.People who get a virus expand antibodies, which can be measured by testing.
However, it is clear whether having antibodies provides general, or even partial, immunity opposed to COVID-19, or how long such an effect can last.
An examination from Kings College London released last month found that while 60% of other people with coronavirus had “powerful” antibodies, only 17% had the same strength point 3 months later.The strength of the antibodies was reduced up to 23 times during the 3 months and, in some cases, the antibodies were undetectable at the end of this period.
The effects put “another nail in the coffin of the concept of collective immunity,” said Jonathan Heeney, professor of virology at the University of Cambridge at the time.
Prime Minister Johnson’s British government first denied attempting to pursue a collective immunity strategy before being warned that it would lead to the deaths of thousands of people.
An Italian fitness minister said in June that Johnson had revealed his goal of seeking collective immunity in a phone call with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on 13 March, just over a week before the UK entered a national blockade.
On the same day, Patrick Vallance, the leading clinical adviser to the British government, said he believed the UK would discharge collective immunity.
Research scientists David Goldsmith and Eric Orlowski of UCL said: “In order to make this strategy not like classic Swedish exceptionalism, in the UK we would do well not to forget that we have almost taken the same path.
“Today, despite the ‘strict (but late) blockade in the UK and the most pooled Swedish response, both countries have higher average mortality rates for seven days compared to Sars-CoV-2 compared to other Scandinavian and European countries.
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