Man behind Sweden’s controversial virus strategy admits mistakes
The article missed the details of what he said in the interview, located here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sverigesradio.se&#x2F;sida&#x2F;artikel.aspx?programid=83&amp;artikel=7487188" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sverigesradio.se&#x2F;sida&#x2F;artikel.aspx?programid=83&amp;arti...</a><p>In the last paragraph in a very academic tone, what Sweden did was to add more and more restrictions as they were shown to be needed, while most other country shut down everything to open up later. In order to figure out which restrictions works and which didn&#x27;t, the approach to shutdown everything and sort things out later may be a better strategy in the future.<p>The bloomberg article also goes a bit beyond the interview in its commentary. It mention specific restrictions like &quot;visit restaurants, go shopping, attend gyms and send children under 16 to school&quot;. The interview does not, and there are good reasons. Doing comparison between nations like Sweden and Denmark gives one type of numbers, but doing regional comparisons gives an other. If we compare Copenhagen and the city on the Swedish side of the bridge called Malmö, we find that Malmö has less cases and deaths while not having any of those specific restrictions. Why? We don&#x27;t know for sure, but the main suspect are the number of elderly people living in care homes. When it come to Sweden more than half of all death comes from elderly care in the area around Stockholm, and Malmö does not have as many as Copenhagen and much fewer than Stockholm.<p>From there we can speculate all day long on what kind of restrictions do help. Maybe keeping children under 16 at home forces the typical demographic that are employed at elderly care to also stay home. Maybe Sweden, or Stockholm, use a different strategy in handling elderly care than other countries&#x2F;regions and that is the culprit. Maybe other countries did more to prevent the virus from getting a hold in the elderly care system by providing employees more equipment and more time. When more nations are lifting restrictions, maybe the answer will be known.