Is Sweden Doing the Right Strategy with COVID-19?

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Dr. Eric Berg

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🗓️ 5 June 2020

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Today we’re going to talk about how Sweden’s strategy regarding COVID-19. In Sweden, they aren’t under any lockdowns or quarantines.

In Sweden:

• The healthcare system is not at full capacity

• The schools are open

• The restaurants are open

• They are practicing social distancing

• They have banned groups of over 50

Sweden has the lowest number of ICU beds in all of the Nordic countries. It also appears that the number of deaths per day from the coronavirus in Sweden has gone down.

Herd immunity is basically a situation where there are enough people exposed to a virus to build immunity against that specific pathogen.

There are these things called B cells that are apart of the acquired immune system, and they make antibodies. Antibodies are very specific to a certain microbe. For example, when your body makes antibodies to COVID-19, they will wait until the next time you’re infected with COVID-19, and they will neutralize specific microbes associated with it.

The theory is that with herd immunity, there will not be a massive spread of the virus. People become infected, then immune. They make antibodies, and then things are back to the way they were again.

What Sweden tried to do was avoid the second wave of infection. The rest of the world that’s under lockdown will eventually have the lockdown lifted. Then, people are exposed to the virus again, and there could be a second wave of infection.

Should we keep going with this cycle?

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0:00.0	So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or in a minute fasting,
0:04.4	whether you're starting keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or we have a question about a product.
0:10.5	Call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 5405.7.
0:29.0	Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Kito and Interminute fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. Hi I'm back with another very interesting video. We're going to talk about
0:48.9	Sweden and if they're doing the right strategy. Now if you're not familiar with what they're doing in Sweden,
0:55.2	they actually have no lockdown, no house arrest,
0:58.9	I'm sorry, no quarantines.
1:01.0	The health care system is not at full capacity. They have open schools,
1:05.5	open restaurants, but they are practicing social distancing and also they're
1:09.8	banning groups of more than 50. Now this is radically different than the rest of the world.
1:15.6	And I know if you read the news this is a very hot controversial topic.
1:21.2	But why do they have the lowest ICU beds of all of the Nordic countries?
1:27.0	Take a look at their latest statistics. This is the number of deaths per day.
1:32.0	This actually is coming down. Now if you have other
1:35.4	statistics that are different than this please send me a link down below but it
1:40.7	does appear to be somewhat successful.
1:44.0	I want to mention this topic of herd immunity.
1:48.0	What is the herd immunity?
1:50.0	Basically a situation where you have enough people that are exposed to a virus, for example, some references say 60% to build immunity against that specific pathogen. Now this is what happens. You have these
2:05.3	B cells that's part of the acquired immune system where you acquire your immunity
2:10.0	and the B cells make these little antibodies.
2:13.0	So you can envision the antibodies as these little handcuffs that attach to the pathogen.
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