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Sweden has had 593 deaths per million inhabitants since the start of the corona pandemic. In Norway, the figure is 52.
Most of the difference comes from the first few months, although Norway still has far fewer deaths than Sweden.
The options of the two countries come to mind when former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland visits SVT’s Skavlan.
– I have not understood why the Swedes started as they did, says Brundtland.
“Too many deaths”
Gro Harlem Brundtland, 81, was a member of the Labor Party in the Norwegian parliament from 1977 to 1997 and served as the country’s prime minister in three rounds during the 1980s and 1990s. During the SARS epidemic, she was the head of the WHO.
She suggests that Sweden’s strategy was to create herd immunity and believes that the scientific basis for this was “too weak.”
– You cannot develop immunity with such a virus. It would be at great cost in the form of illness and death. And they had too many illnesses and too many deaths.
Today, the difference between Sweden and Norway is much smaller, says Gro Harlem Brundtland.
– Over time, the Swedes have taken more account than they initially did.
See more:
A dark milestone passed: more than 6,000 dead in Sweden as a result of covid-19.
