Prognosis
Swedish Commission Indicts Some Early Covid Responses as ‘Tardy’
People stand in line without social distancing outside a restaurant in Gotland, Sweden, in July, 2020.
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Sweden did too little, too late to curb Covid-19 infections when the pandemic broke out last year, a government-appointed commission said on Friday.
The report is an indictment of some controversial aspects of Sweden’s strategy in the early phases of the pandemic. The almost 1,200-page document published Friday says it appears obvious that the initial measures were lacking, both compared with neighboring countries and in relation to the prevalence of infections.