The Swedish Strategy

Prognosis: Misconception

Bloomberg

Health & Fitness, Science

4.1 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Recently, Sweden won praise from the World Health Organization for its unusual approach to battling Coronavirus. The Nordic nation imposed far fewer restrictions on movement than other countries, and instead relied on Swedes to act responsibly and embrace the guidelines laid out by the country’s health authorities.

The strategy has been controversial. Sweden’s Covid-19 death rate is considerably higher than in many other countries, at 57 per 100,000. But the pace of new infections and deaths has slowed markedly since the end of June. Stockholm based reporter Niclas Rolander explains where the country has gone right--and wrong.

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0:33.3	Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day 173 since coronavirus was declared a global pandemic.
0:43.6	Today's main story, Sweden shocked the world this spring, when the government decided to keep businesses mostly open and impose far fewer restrictions on movement to stem the COVID-19 outbreak.
0:57.7	But the controversial strategy may have paid off.
1:02.5	Was it worth the death toll?
1:05.0	But first, here's what happened in virus news today?
1:24.1	India passed Mexico in COVID-19 fatalities, making it the country with the third largest death toll in the world.
1:30.6	The country is fast becoming the new virus epicenter, behind only the U.S. and Brazil in both deaths and infections. The virus has swept India's vast rural areas. The grim milestone
1:40.9	comes a day after the country set another record, reporting the most daily
1:45.4	infections of any country.
1:48.0	It's 78,761 new infections surpassed a previous high set by the U.S.
1:57.5	In Uganda, the coronavirus outbreak is spreading quickly.
2:02.6	Healthcare facilities in the capital, Kampala, have run out-of-bed capacity, according to the newspaper New Vision.
2:10.6	The newspaper cited Monica Mucenero, the presidential advisor on the outbreak, as saying the city is racing toward uncontrollable
2:20.5	transmission.
2:22.3	Finally, in the U.S., most people see the vaccine process as politicized.
2:28.3	According to a new survey from Statt and the Harris poll, 78% of Americans worry that the COVID-19 vaccine approval process is being driven more by
2:39.4	politics than science.
2:42.7	72% of Republicans and 82% of Democrats expressed such concerns.
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