Sweden has had a huge decrease in cases and hospitalizations in the last 3-4 weeks and it's a bit unclear why but if anything the holidays most likely helped since people didn't go to work and because of that meet less people. Estimates are currently from the contact tracing that's done that about 40% of transmissions happen at work.
Testing positivity has gone down from just over 20% to about 11% last week and anyone that wants to get a test can get one with no issues everywhere in the country.
Case numbers are now down to what they were in late October/early November and less than half of what they were the last week before the holidays. The worry is that they will start going up again now that all the holidays are over but it's been 3-4 weeks of work now and it's still heading down.
New ICU admissions have seen a dip that's looking just like it did in the Spring, if not even steeper. The pink line is a 7 day average, the gray columns at the end are the last 3 days and are most likely incomplete. Two regions are already down to 0 people in ICU again
Hospitalizations excluding ICU is on a similar trend to ICU as well. A decrease of 1000 people from the peak on January 4th.
Vaccinations are ongoing even if it's quite slow like most of EU. 230 068 people (2.82%) with dose 1 and 18 923 people with dose 2 (0.23%) as of today.
By age group the numbers looked like this at the start of this week, we should hopefully start to see a decrease in deaths shortly because of this. About half of the deaths are in elderly care homes still and the vast majority of people there (that want the vaccine) have received the first dose by now.
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