Was there any breakthrough in COVID treatment since December?

[space-time]

Looking at Sweden, their cases are similar to what they had in December but the deaths are almost zero.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronaviru...ry/sweden/

[C(-)ris]

No breakthrough treatments that I am aware of. I think they are just better at diagnosing, treating more aggressively early, and in general just have a good idea of what works and what doesn't.

[JoeH]

And they may be treating cases with a different demographic mix. Those statistics don't break the cases down by age groups.

[sekker]

I would be careful with Sweden, they've already been accused of cooking the books.

Would be good to get their actual daily deaths for that country and look for excessive deaths - I would not put it past them to relabel some COVID deaths.

There are reasons for COVID cases to go up but lethality down - kids in schools getting diagnosed, for example.

[RgrF]

Sweden is in defense mode since the failure of their "no lockdown" non response during the initial stages of the pandemic. Politics there are also shifting in response to a rising right-wing nationalist movement so I'd agree about taking their data at face value. Not sure they're quite in the opaque category of Florida but not quite forthcoming either.

[sekker]

RgrF wrote:
Sweden is in defense mode since the failure of their "no lockdown" non response during the initial stages of the pandemic. Politics there are also shifting in response to a rising right-wing nationalist movement so I'd agree about taking their data at face value. Not sure they're quite in the opaque category of Florida but not quite forthcoming either.

I've seen their scientists, on a zoom call with Dr Fauci, try to re-write history of their COVID response.

No way I would trust any numbers from their 'official' channels.