Our paper about the Swedish pandemic response has now been accessed an astounding 112 thousand times in less than 10 days. It's ranked by Altmetric as one of the top 10 papers of the past 8 weeks and currently
#301
of the past 11 years! 😬
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It's been reposted by Nobel Prize winning virologists
In retrospect, a discussion of the laissez faire Swedish approach.
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Former Swedish Prime Ministers
“The Swedish response to this pandemic was unique and char-acterised by a morally, ethically, and scientifically questionable laissez-faire approach, a consequence of structural problems in the society.”
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”Sweden was well equipped to prevent the pandemic of COVID-19 from becoming serious… however, Sweden had ten times higher COVID-19 death rates compared with neighbouring Norway… The Swedish people were kept in ignorance of basic facts.” Totalsågning.
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So many times I was asked “But Sweden …”
Now we have a detailed, and damning account of what went wrong. “drastic deviation from 280 years of respect for scientific facts” A reminder that a well prepared country with expertise +++ can go terribly wrong
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“Why can’t we be like Sweden?” the American right whined for much of 2020
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As well as media in Austria, Italy, France, and Germany
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It's even been raised in Swedish Parliament with questions directed to
@lenahallengren
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And yet ... as far as I know, *not once* has the paper been mentioned in Swedish media.
Complete silence.
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@DavidSteadson
Incredible work on the part of you and all the authors. Absolutely shameful on the part of Swedish media. I guess they’ve all moved on to become Ukraine experts…
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@DavidSteadson
You and the other authors really did a good job here. A service to truth and history.
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