Während der Pandemie verfolgte Schweden den einzigartigsten (und umstrittensten) Ansatz unter den nordischen Ländern und verfolgte eine Strategie der Herdenimmunität und der „sanften Regierungsführung“. Bereinigt um die Bevölkerungsgröße war die Zahl der Todesopfer in Schweden etwa zehnmal höher als in Finnland, Island und Norwegen.

My sister lives in Sweden and was telling me how they did things differently to us in the UK.

It was such a complicated and bewildering topic at the time that I thought I would wait until this was all over and then academics would be able to tell us if the Swedish approach was best in the long run.

There were arguments for and against at the time.

I’m glad to see research answering questions on the issue.

This was Germany’s chance to fix it’s retirement system and care system both at once, but we chose to lock ourselves in for two years instead.

Yet much lower than countries like the US that did hardcore lockdowns.

The mortality was higher in the early phase. But across the pandemic as a whole Swedens mortality was low and Sweden never adopted a full lockdown like Denmark had.

We’ve had numbers on this for a while, but good to see more studies. Very tired of hearing how „great“ Sweden did from all the Covid deniers.

I forget the exact numbers but their economy only performed something like .25 better than the other Nordic countries too, so it’s not like all that extra death came with better economic performance.

How are they measuring „death toll“ here? [Because previous studies have shown that Sweden had similar excess mortality rates.](https://academic.oup.com/eurpub/article/34/4/737/7675929)