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Goldman Economists Caution Against Copying Sweden Virus Strategy

Pedestrians sit by the fountains at the Kungstradgarden park in Stockholm on April 23.
Photographer: Mikael Sjoberg/Bloomberg

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By Niclas Rolander

May 5, 2020 at 12:36 PM UTC

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Sweden’s light-touch approach to containing Covid-19 may be working in Scandinavia’s biggest economy, but it would be wrong to regard it as a model for others to emulate, according to Goldman Sachs.