Comment Re:Influenza has disappeared (Score 1) 307
>Sweden prepared more than the US did, significantly more.
I quit working at a major university hospital in Stockholm three years ago, in the very early days of the pandemic. I, and many other scientists from academic research, were contacted and asked to volunteer to help fill out the increased testing capacity, we were run through a hospital bootcamp and were working shifts during the first wave. The whole operation was pretty remarkable to see up close, Swedes always seem to do things really, really efficiently.
The most interesing thing to me was that they didn't need us for the second wave, even though at that point all the emergency tent capacity had been removed, and even though the second wave dwarfed the first. At that point the hospitals were 'properly' prepped and didn't need emergency stand-ins.