The United States is struggling with the coronavirus pandemic. While the situation in New York City is dramatic, Donald Trump prefers to criticize little Sweden. A virologist responds immediately.
- Because of lax No contact: Donald Trump complains in the Corona crisis about Sweden.
- The US president railed against the planned one Herd immunity in the Scandinavian country.
- Sweden’s state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell has an unmistakable answer Trump.
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Munich / Washington – The USA is now the corona hotspot* worldwide. The government of Donald Trump has a lot of trouble that Coronavirus pandemic* contain, or respond appropriately at all. Trump announces a new “miracle weapon” almost every day. The US president, however, prefers to distribute against other countries – namely against the comparatively small Scandinavian EU country Sweden.
Corona crisis worldwide: US President Donald Trump critically refers to Sweden
The Republican was asked which country he would give advice on, which he considered topics like No contact* and Social distancing lay out too lax.
President Donald #Trump accuses the WHO of not having warned of entry from China.
It is still unclear what he is accusing his trading advisor who warned about in January. #Corona virus– ZDF today show (@heuteshow) April 8, 2020
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“Now is over Sweden talked. Sweden is suffering extremely, you know that, right? “, Said Trump Tuesday evening (local time) in Washington: “Sweden makes this ‘herd’, they call it ‘the herd’.” And Trump actually meant the so-called Herd immunity*, after which a certain (high) percentage share with the Pathogen Sars-CoV-2 must have infected before the number of infections declines in the long term.
Despite the corona virus pandemic: hardly any exit restrictions in Sweden
To put it in perspective: Sweden turns – roughly contrary to Germany – only very limited exit restrictions
* and leaves social life largely as usual – although the number of infections with the Corona virus recently climbed rapidly. Or rather: precisely because of that?
Sweden’s state epidemiologist: Anders Tegnell (left).
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“Yes, you can’t take that seriously,” said Sweden’s state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell about Trump’s statements on Swedish TV: “It is of course very difficult in Sweden, not least in the health sector. But compared to the situation in New York, it continues to work pretty well in Sweden. ”Tough answer from Scandinavia.
Coronavirus pandemic: Many more corona infected people in New York City than in all of Sweden
For comparison: as of Wednesday afternoon, April 8, had only in New York City (estimated nine million inhabitants) around 140,000 people are infected with the novel lung disease, according to agency information, around 5,500 people are suffering from the consequences of one Corona infection died here.
In all of Sweden (10.3 million inhabitants) – which is of course much more extensive – at the same time, according to estimates by Johns Hopkins University, there were just over 8,400 registered infections and 687 reported deaths Corona virus.
After criticism from Donald Trump: Sweden virologist justifies Corona strategy herd immunity
“I don’t know what he means by this, but we who work with infectious diseases know that this type of disease will continue to spread until we reach immunity in the population,” Tegnell continued, apparently smiling at Trump Herd immunity: “There is no other way to stop it.”
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