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> This is a big part of why I think we could have exposed much more people to the virus with only marginal increase in hospitalizations, by encouraging those who are not at risk to live as normally

This is largely what Sweden has been doing. They've succeeded in that they've kept a healthy margin of hospital/ICU beds free, but people are unhappy with the overall number of deaths. They've also largely failed at keeping the spread out of nursing homes (they have a similar 50% deaths-from-nursing-homes ratio to other countries).




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