Sweden touts the success of its controversial lockdown-free coronavirus strategy, but the country still has one of the highest mortality rates in the world
Experts are split on whether Sweden's strategy is working
A memorial in Stockholm's Mynttorget square in memory of loved ones lost to the new coronavirus in April 2020.Johan Giesecke, Sweden's former chief epidemiologist who is now a health adviser to the World Health Organization, told Business Insider that Sweden's controversial policy had not yet been successful in curbing the COVID-19 outbreak in the country but would in the future.
He predicted that Sweden's case count and death toll would continue to rise in the coming weeks but said the country was "on the downward slope."Other Swedish officials have acknowledged serious shortfalls in the risky strategy.Sweden's former state epidemiologist Annika Linde toldon Tuesday that the country's coronavirus response "maybe hasn't been the smartest in every respect.
"If we had to do this over again, I think we should have imposed significantly tougher restrictions from the beginning," she told the outlet. "We should have known how underprepared we were in healthcare, and elder care. A shutdown could have given us a chance to prepare ourselves, think things through, and radically slow the spread of infection."
Sweden's foreign minister acknowledged criticism of Sweden's policies in her Tuesday briefing and encouraged experts to continue to voice their opinions. Still, she remained confident that Sweden's actions would cultivate success in curbing the virus in the long term.
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