This article discusses Sweden's approach to push herd immunity, which led to a high death rate but may stop the resurgence we are seeing all over the world as quarantines get lifted, so in the long term may come out about the same.
But they also note not using protection in nursing homes unless the person was diagnosed, and therefore the epidemic "ripped through the country's nursing homes" ..
https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200501/sweden-sticks-with-controversial-covid19-approach
This April article from theUK Guardian discusses the problem
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/19/anger-in-sweden-as-elderly-pay-price-for-coronavirus-strategy
And this article crom the BMJ from June also notes the lack of worry about the elderly, not only lack of equipment, but anecdotal stories of physicians giving a "palliative cocktail" to some nursing home patients, i.e. sedating them instead of trying to save them...(we give this to terminal cancer patients but not to people who are merely old and who might have a 30 percent chance of life if properly treated in a hospital
https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2376
excuse the lack of decent links: I am on my tablet again
excuse the lack of decent links: I am on my tablet again
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