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by adventured 2293 days ago
Given the massive explosion in cases in Denmark, going from 514 to 1573 in two days, closing the borders is probably wise. For a country with just 5.9 million people, that's a recipe for collapsing your healthcare system if the cases continue to increase like that for much longer.

There are not many medical systems on the planet that could handle that per capita case load increase in such a short amount of time (specifically the intensive care patients that will go with it in the coming days and weeks).
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chvid 2293 days ago
Depends on why the increase in cases? Just because succesfully traced and identified a group of cases, it doesn't tell you anything about the growth in the true number of infected.

There are 10 people in hospitals in Denmark for COVID19. None dead.

By the publicised numbers Sweden is hit about the same as Denmark; yet they choose a much more moderate approach.

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Lewton 2293 days ago
It’s amazing that anyone can still be in doubt about drastic measures being necessary when we have Italy as an example of what can happen
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ceejayoz 2293 days ago
Still seeing lots of "this is just the media blowing things out of proportion" posts on local news Facebook pages.

As if China can be explained that way.

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chvid 2293 days ago
Just to be clear.

I have no opinion on whether this is blown out of proportion.

I can just see that my own country is choosing the most extreme measures (packaged in nationalistic rhetorics) where as our neighbours are not.

The idea that the population should be sampled so the exact extent of the spread can be measured (and so can the effect of the various policies) is not mine. Here is a Danish doctor calling for the same:

https://www.altinget.dk/artikel/overlaege-regeringens-corona...

In Danish. Headline: The Government's Corona-strategy misses focus on the engine of the epidemic

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aboodman 2293 days ago
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_D..., it's 23 in hospital vs 801 total identified cases. That a hospitalization rate of only 2.8%. I wonder what accounts for the massive discrepancy from other countries.
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Lewton 2293 days ago
Amount of people tested, age of people infected and time

So far the people infected skews fairly young

And the pandemic took hold around Tuesday and it takes about a week for hospitalization to be required in the severe cases

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