Sweden has taken a different approach to fighting COVID-19 than most other countries -- and it’s causing a global stir. What to know:
“Whatever they have done [in Sweden] has been leading to more deaths,” Hanage says. “It does not seem that there were appropriate steps taken to ensure the safety of people in those nursing homes. … If you’re going to have a strategy like that, you need to be thinking about your vulnerable population.”
The United States should definitely not follow Sweden’s lead, says Tom Frieden, MD, former director of the CDC and president and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, a global public health initiative.to spread and wait for herd immunity, it’s likely that more than 1 million Americans would die from the infection,” he says via email.
“If they want to perform the experiment for everybody, go for it, and see what happens. I’m not going to join in personally,” she says, describing Sweden as often taking a more daredevil stance than other countries.
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