The COVID-19 pandemic has affected many facets of life in Sweden and has resulted in dramatic loss of life, especially among older and poorer residents. It has also caused unprecedented disruption in the circle of family life, work, education, the continuum of care and society and no one has escaped its impact. In late June 2020, the Swedish government created a national COVID-19 commission to read about how Sweden has dealt with the pandemic. Interim reports were published in 2020 and 2021 with a final report in February 2022.
“I believe the Swedish COVID-19 commission’s investigation is a well-written summary and critique of how Sweden has addressed the pandemic. The pandemic has disrupted society and learning from the report is very important to our long-term pandemic preparedness. Despite the importance of the research, so far I have not met any colleague who has read the 1,700 pages, and that is why I wrote this review, to make the findings of the commission’s research available to more people,” says the author of the article,” says Professor Jonas F Ludvigsson, a pediatrician at the Örebro University Hospital and professor at the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Karolinska Institutet.
In Sweden, mortality rates were highest in the spring of 2020, but the overall excess mortality in 2020-2021 was 0. 79%, which is lower than in many other European countries.
“While the commission is critical of Sweden’s handling of the pandemic, it also notes that the voluntary measures that were taken, in addition to keeping schools open, were adequate and kept Swedes deprived of their freedom during the pandemic,” Ludvigsson adds. “However, they also conclude that broader and prior measures should have been taken, especially during the first wave. “
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