Sweden's decision to avoid a strict lockdown like its European neighbors drew global attention and was not without controversy, but its chief epidemiologist says there are few things he would have done differently.
Unlike its Scandinavian neighbors in Norway, Denmark and Finland, Sweden resisted a lockdown.
But now the country is past the peak of infections, its chief epidemiologist says, and there are few actions he would have done differently.strategy, because we're all doing something that nobody did before," Anders Tegnell, Sweden's state epidemiologist who has led the country's coronavirus response, told CNBC Thursday.
While the countries around it closed borders, schools, bars and businesses and imposed strict social-distancing measures, in contrast, Sweden's government — acting on advice from its Public Health Agency and Anders Tegnell, as well as a group of other experts — opted for mostly advisory measures. "Now we know things that we could do better, for sure, but on the whole I think we would go down the same route," although he conceded that more work could have been done to prevent outbreaks in Sweden's care homes.
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