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| Sweden excess deaths lowest in Europe |
Sweden’s former chief epidemiologist Anders Tegnell has described criticism of his Covid-19 approach as “exaggerated”, after a Swedish newspaper presented statistics it says vindicates his light-touch strategy.
While the rest of Europe responded to the pandemic with lockdowns, school closures, face masks and widespread testing, Mr Tegnell (67) pushed a strategy of few restrictions in Sweden. More…
The immediate result of not going lockstep with the rest of the western world, handling Covid, was that Sweden was pilloried. In the end it’s the excess deaths that tell the fullest story, one that can’t be hidden or manipulated (Covid case numbers, for example, vary depending on how much testing is done).
On that basis, have a look at excess deaths in Sweden vs the rest of Europe in the chart above, from Our World in Data. Sweden is lowest.
