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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 21 Jun 2020

    Health Nerd Retweeted Prof. Devi Sridhar

    The really sad thing here is that we had enough information before Sweden pursued their policy to know it was probably a bad idea Thousands of deaths later, we can be fairly certain 🙁https://twitter.com/devisridhar/status/1274803432092770316 …

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    Prof. Devi SridharVerified account @devisridhar
    Architect of Sweden's policy said he expected 40% of Stockholm to be immune to Covid-19 by end-May, but a new study shows only 6.1% of Sweden's population had developed coronavirus antibodies by late May. Have people there 'locked down' voluntarily to avoid getting COVID? https://twitter.com/BusinessInsider/status/1274689137480777729 …
    11:39 PM - 21 Jun 2020
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      1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 22 Jun 2020

        On another note, an overall infection rate of 6.1% implies an overall IFR in Sweden of 0.69%

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      2. Bologna Fish, M.D.‏ @BolognaFishMD 21 Jun 2020
        Replying to @GidMK

        Conversely, I would submit that Sweden didn't have enough information to pursue the policy they did.

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      3.  🔴Lalyta  💔 🇮🇹 💔 🇧🇴‏ @lalytatweets 22 Jun 2020
        Replying to @BolognaFishMD @GidMK

        Really? I actually think Sweden knew more than enough to not pursue the policy that they did. One important piece of information was the fact that this was a novel virus that had too many unknown variables which should have been enough of a reason to decide not to play.

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      1. Julia L Bach‏ @JuliaLBach8 22 Jun 2020
        Replying to @GidMK

        Year is half over. They are at half of normal year’s deaths. What am I missing? https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-deaths/ …

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      1. Julia L Bach‏ @JuliaLBach8 22 Jun 2020
        Replying to @GidMK

        Even NYC only has 25% seroprevalence in hardest hit areas. But there are plenty of ideas now about why resistance to COVID doesn’t necessarily mean antibodies. Should study more on why children are doing so well.

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      2. Jacob Gudiol‏Verified account @JacobGudiol 22 Jun 2020
        Replying to @GidMK

        What policy is that? Still the fake narrative on herd immunity? Deaths are almost back to normal. Why would anyone do that if the goal is herd immunity?pic.twitter.com/eiLthLF6Be

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      3. Johan Wallström‏ @Plantbiased 22 Jun 2020
        Replying to @JacobGudiol @GidMK

        Mitigation instead of suppression. …https://s3.eu-de.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud/kva-image-pdf/2020/05/Fakta-och-debatt_17_juni_FINAL.pdf … We still have covid deaths in sweden. Looking at all cause mortality is a bit misleading, as the baseline for this year is lower before the epidemic started.pic.twitter.com/LtPijEvZwO

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      2. Corona Realism  🟢‏ @holmenkollin 22 Jun 2020
        Replying to @GidMK

        Sweden is faring well, public support still high es ever. Alarmists and foreign experts try to make it look like a disaster, but actually it's their predictions that were proven wrong big time. Herd immunity does not need 70% seroprevalence. Turn obviously much, much earlier!

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      3. Zimmy the 2nd  🇿🇼 🇸🇪 🇪🇺 👨‍🏭 👨‍🔧 🎣 🍺 🚜 🏞 🏝 🗻 🏕‏ @ZimmyInSweden 22 Jun 2020
        Replying to @holmenkollin @GidMK

        Yup. Every "expert" prediction I saw said 20k to 40k deaths by June.

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      1. Terry Griffin‏ @terrygrf 22 Jun 2020
        Replying to @GidMK

        Maybe people did the rational thing and said, "well if we are all gonna get it, why don't you go first?" Did Sweden offer risk-bonuses to those who got COVID-19 early?

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