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From foreignpolicy.com
December 22, 2020
The Inside Story of How Sweden Botched Its Coronavirus Response
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/22...ovid-response/
...And the result has been deadly. While countries such as the United States, Brazil, and India have made headlines for recording the highest number of coronavirus-related fatalities, Sweden’s death rate of over 80 per 100,000 people is among Europe’s highest and is around 10 times as great as those of Norway and Finland, and over four times Denmark’s. COVID-19 hospitalizations are now rising faster there than in most European countries, and Sweden is caring for more patients in hospital now than it did at the height of its first wave. By Dec. 21, Sweden had surpassed the United States and all major European countries in its daily confirmed cases per million. Things have gotten so out of control in Sweden that neighboring Norway, for the first time since World War II, put troops on the border to prevent Swedes from crossing over. |
But think of the financial windfall to their social medicine programs. Far fewer people like you burdening the health care system because you refuse to exit gracefully. With an intact economy and less drag from social systems, Sweden may have a renaissance of sorts. The final chapter on the pandemic response is years away.
