ANDERS WIKLUND/Getty Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, Sweden has drawn international attention for its unorthodox approach to managing the virus' spread. Unlike most European countries, Sweden didn't impose strict lockdown measures. Now it's reaping the rewards — economically speaking, at least. A report from Capital Economics published on Tuesday found that the Swedish economy was the…
Share on PinterestScientists have analyzed how Sweden’s minimal lockdown has impacted death rates. Sweden’s softer approach to lockdown involved closing universities and other schools for older pupils and recommending that anyone with COVID-19 symptoms and everyone over 70 self-isolate. Now, a new study suggests that these limited measures contributed to fewer deaths than expected. Still,…
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Money or your life? — After limiting its lockdown, Sweden is neither success story nor disaster zone. John Timmer - Jun 6, 2020 12:00 pm UTC Enlarge / State epidemiologist Anders Tegnell of the Public Health Agency of Sweden has admitted that the pandemic response he promotes hasn't worked out as well as he hoped.…
Sweden is famously one of the few countries to have opted against a lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus. But given that the country has a much higher death toll per million than its Nordic neighbours, many observers have suggested that the Swedish approach has failed. While countries across the world have eased…
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Nurse Crystal Dhooghe is used to dealing with blood and broken bones in the emergency room. But she didn’t expect to witness so much violence against her own colleagues. “I’ve seen nurses get shoved, pushed, scratched. The biggest one is bitten,” said Dhooghe, who works at Henry Ford Genesys Hospital in Grand Blanc, Michigan. The
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