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What we can learn from Sweden – Spiked
It may have made mistakes, but it has escaped our disastrous cycle of lockdowns.
No country has devised a perfect response to the coronavirus pandemic. Despite its growing list of admirers, Sweden is no exception.
Its state epidemiologist, Anders Tegnell, has admitted that Swedish authorities at first failed to combine their light social-distancing regime with proper safeguards against the virus in care homes. Talk of a Swedish miracle risks overlooking such mistakes.
That said, Swedes have good reason to be proud of their governments handling of the pandemic. As we haggle…
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