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Sweden has done the right thing.
Researchers from the University of Oxford praise the strategy of the Swedish crown.
– You’ve kept a cool head, without painting an end of the world scenario, says Carl Heneghan, professor of evidence-based medicine.
Close or move on? In recent weeks, debate has broken out inside and outside Sweden’s borders about which crown strategy is best, viewed from a medical and socio-economic perspective.
Sweden has distinguished itself globally by stubbornly keeping schools, gyms and shops open when many other countries have issued strict bans. In large parts of the world, it is still unthinkable to eat in a restaurant, cut your hair or have a coffee in the city while the pandemic is at its peak.
This is especially true in the UK. There, since the end of March, there is a curfew if you don’t want to go for a walk, shop, do essential work, or visit a doctor.
Economic hangover
At the same time, the country’s politicians are being hit by the closing economic downturn and a nightly political scene of the black labor market.
As of this writing, 1.4 million Britons have applied for unemployment benefits.
Therefore, the English media have closely followed developments in a relatively open Sweden. And the trial of state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell has sometimes been tough.
But now the noises are changing.
Profit Sweden
In a newspaper, the Daily Mail newspaper claims that more and more data point to the Swedish lead. In a cross-country comparison, Sweden is reported to have fewer deaths and fewer confirmed cases per capita. And, not least, we are drawn to lower unemployment than the UK.
The magazine quotes Carl Heneghan, an epidemiologist and professor at the University of Oxford. He believes that Sweden and the Public Health Authority have done everything right, while the UK has done almost everything wrong.
– If you look at what is happening in Sweden, the man (the Swedish government, note) has kept a cool head and has not painted a scenario of the end of the world. Our government has everything on its back foot, he says.
Photo: Oxford University.
Professor Carl Heneghan.
“I lost the top”
Heneghan believes the British government miscalculated the peak of the pandemic, which it estimates should have taken place three weeks before the country was formally closed. As a result, the measure became ineffective and will now probably do more harm than good.
– The British government constantly claims that it has followed science. But it seems that one has lost sight of what has really been happening, he says.
– You were unable to look at the data and understand when the spike of infection actually occurred.
Photo: Björn Lindahl
State epidemic The state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell has been the face, along with the government, of Sweden’s attitude towards the crown crisis.
Well done
The Oxford professor is supported by Swedish experts, including Agnes Wold. She believes that the Swedish strategy has been successful, at least with respect to the most central mission: to be able to change healthcare.
– I think – pepper, pepper – that medical care has managed to keep up with the infection. And that has been the strategy all along, she says.
– We’ve had some control. We cannot stop the virus itself.
Have we seen the worst of the pandemic now?
– Maybe in Stockholm. I’m in Gothenburg, and we don’t know how it develops here, she says.
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