{"id":471,"date":"2020-06-10T18:42:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T01:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/?p=471"},"modified":"2020-07-02T18:42:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T01:42:23","slug":"coronavirus-should-we-aim-for-herd-immunity-like-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/06\/10\/coronavirus-should-we-aim-for-herd-immunity-like-sweden\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Should We Aim for Herd Immunity Like Sweden?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Sweden has famously followed a different coronavirus strategy than most of the rest of the Developed world: Let the virus run loose, curb it enough to make sure it doesn\u2019t overwhelm the healthcare system like in Hubei, Italy or Spain, but don\u2019t try to eliminate it. They think stopping it completely is impossible. The natural consequence is that most citizens get infected, and that eventually slows down the epidemic. That\u2019s why, in short, people call that strategy \u201cHerd Immunity\u201d.<br \/>\nThe other strategy is the Hammer and the Dance: Aggressively attack the coronavirus by locking down the economy. Once curbed, jump into the Dance by replacing the aggressive lockdown with cheap and intelligent measures to control the virus.<br \/>\nSome countries and states, such as the Netherlands and the UK, or US states like Texas and Georgia, have implemented measures in between the two strategies. So which strategy is best?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via: <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@tomaspueyo\/coronavirus-should-we-aim-for-herd-immunity-like-sweden-b1de3348e88b\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"wpel-icon-left\"><i class=\"wpel-icon dashicons-before dashicons-admin-links\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>Coronavirus: Should We Aim for Herd Immunity Like Sweden?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweden has famously followed a different coronavirus strategy than most of the rest of the Developed world: Let the virus run loose, curb it enough to make sure it doesn\u2019t overwhelm the healthcare system like in Hubei, Italy or Spain, but don\u2019t try to eliminate it. They think stopping it completely is impossible. The natural &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/06\/10\/coronavirus-should-we-aim-for-herd-immunity-like-sweden\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}