The American left has misunderstood Sweden for years, holding up its significantly liberalized economy as a socialist utopia.
This is important context as Sweden takes heat for its relatively high infection rate and death toll.
Sweden has been clear it is aiming for a "Sustainable" strategy that it can practice until there is a vaccine or cure while also being economically tolerable.
In any case we won't know for months, or years, how Sweden held up by comparison in lives lost.
Despite its ban on visits to nursing homes, Sweden is grappling with a failure to protect the elderly.
More than 500 such institutions have had at least one confirmed case, though safely running these homes was a problem in Sweden long before Covid-19 appeared.
"If we are to reach a new normal, in many ways Sweden represents a future model," said World Health Organization official Michael Ryan last week.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/weighing-swedens-coronavirus-model-11588631127?mod=hp_opin_pos_1
This is important context as Sweden takes heat for its relatively high infection rate and death toll.
Sweden has been clear it is aiming for a "Sustainable" strategy that it can practice until there is a vaccine or cure while also being economically tolerable.
In any case we won't know for months, or years, how Sweden held up by comparison in lives lost.
Despite its ban on visits to nursing homes, Sweden is grappling with a failure to protect the elderly.
More than 500 such institutions have had at least one confirmed case, though safely running these homes was a problem in Sweden long before Covid-19 appeared.
"If we are to reach a new normal, in many ways Sweden represents a future model," said World Health Organization official Michael Ryan last week.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/weighing-swedens-coronavirus-model-11588631127?mod=hp_opin_pos_1
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