The took a non-panic approach to the pandemic. Turned out to be the right one. (When in doubt, don’t panic.)
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden’s top epidemiologist said on Tuesday a rapid decline in new critical COVID-19 cases alongside slowing death rates indicated that Sweden’s strategy for slowing the epidemic, which has been widely questioned abroad, was working.
Sweden has foregone a hard lockdown throughout the outbreak, a strategy that set it apart from most of Europe.
Chief epidemiologist Anders Tegnell of the public health agency said a rapid slowdown in the spread of the virus indicated very strongly that Sweden had reached relatively widespread immunity.
Blithe Spirit 