Sweden allows its lack of response to Covid-19 wasn’t a good idea
Sweden’s top epidemiologist admits that keeping the country largely open for business, and recreation, likely resulted in more deaths
03 June 2020 - 12:28
Stockholm — Sweden’s top epidemiologist has admitted his strategy to fight Covid-19 resulted in too many deaths, after persuading his country to avoid a strict lockdown.
“If we were to encounter the same illness with the same knowledge that we have today, I think our response would land somewhere in between what Sweden did and what the rest of the world has done,” Anders Tegnell said in an interview with Swedish Radio...
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