There are a lot of people retweeting reports that Sweden is not treating patients above 80 anymore -> This is wrong. This is part of the advice for the case ICU beds should be overloaded. But it is not (yet). It is based on this article 1/5 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/sweden-coronavirus-lockdown-doctor-death-certificates-latest-a9462796.html">https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl...

Despite linking to the original Swedish source it is not clear that this advice is only by one hospital, and only in case of overloaded capacity. 2/5 https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/samhalle/a/lAyePy/dokument-visar-de-prioriteras-bort-fran-intensivvard">https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/s...

But so far, 79/300 ICU beds in this hospital are vacant. The Swedish strategy may still lead to overloading more than in other countries, but this is a different debate. 3/5

Furthermore, the recommendation is also not to not treat "60-80 years old with pre-existing conditions" but 60-70 y.o. with more than two organ system failures or 70-80 y.o. with more than one organ system failure. 4/5

And if you are arguing with per-capita adjusted numbers (which show Sweden is doing worse than most other countries in it& #39;s area), just keep in mind per-capita adjustment is tricky and often worse than absolute numbers. This is an excellent thread about it https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1249930293928030209">https://twitter.com/CT_Bergst...