So pretty much everyone was a COVID case for a while. And then it started to peter off from late

April. And I was just seeing less and less COVID. Now I haven't seen a single COVID case in

almost three months. Welcome to the Fat Emperor podcast. I'm your host, Iber Cummins.

September 29th, and we've got another discussion that focuses primarily on our viral issue.

And it's an honor today to have a Swedish doctor, who's a lot of experience in ICU during the epidemic,

Dr. Sebastian Rushworth, who has written

some fascinating articles going through herd immunity and the other dynamics of the viral problem

we've had. So great to see you, Sebastian. Thank you. And I remember your first article, quite some time back that was speaking a lot of sense compared to much of what was in the media.

But we might start with just talking about what it was like in Sweden, especially with your direct hands-on experience with the sad cases of COVID.

And just a general environment, what it was like at the time back in I suppose March April May so I think for me COVID started sometime in mid-March before then

it was something I was reading about in the news, but there weren't any cases reported in Sweden.

And then I think beginning of March, there were a few cases in Sweden.

And from what I was hearing in the news, there was track.

These people were being tracked.

Their contacts were being tracked.

They were being quarantined.

And it was limited to three or four cases.

And then very suddenly things changed.

Suddenly, from really one day to the next next we were being inundated with the cases it was clear i think to everyone that this wasn't something that was going to be contained

and and the hospital decided that, well, I work in the emergency

room, so that's where I see all my patients. The hospital decided that we were going to split

the emergency room into a COVID and the non-COVID section and anyone with a fever or cough, any of those kinds of symptoms would go into the COVID section.

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