Why would you want to exacerbate a dangerous situation??????-----What's the point of having educated Doctor's and researchers in the field if you won't at least use common sense and follow those who know?

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The current population of Sweden is 10,103,363 as of Saturday, July 25, 2020, based on Worldometer elaboration of the latest United Nations data. Sweden 2020 population is estimated at 10,099,265 people at mid year according to UN data. Sweden population is equivalent to 0.13% of the total world population.----This is the information currently listed on Google.

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Why would you want to exacerbate a dangerous situation??????

Sweden's renegade COVID-19 policy looks like a disaster — but the country is quietly determined to see it through despite the cost in lives

sbaker@businessinsider.com (Sinéad Baker)

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Business Insider•July 25, 2020

People sit outside in Malmo, Sweden, in May 2020 by a sign that urges people to keep their distance during the coronavirus pandemic.

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• Sweden avoided a full lockdown, instead introducing some rules intended to keep people working while protecting the vulnerable and the hospital system.
• But its deaths soared, its expected "herd immunity" outcome failed, and other countries are limiting the movement of people from Sweden when opening borders.
• Now, some Swedes are beginning to question the strategy, and other countries are managing eased lockdowns without a second wave.
• But Sweden says it is playing the long game, and its economy has suffered less than its neighbors.
• As a result, some experts say judgement over whether the strategy was right must wait. But Sweden is now left with a high death toll and worries about future outbreaks.
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In February, the month after the coronavirus was observed in China, and with only 45 cases in Europe, the Swedish government believed the virus would not be a big deal.

Johan Carlsson, the director-general of the Swedish Public Health Agency, then told Radio Sweden: "I think we are very convinced that we could contain this disease. We may get a couple more cases of course but we are not expecting a major outbreak.

"I think we are well prepared," he said.

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Later, in April — with Italy seeing almost 1,000 daily deaths — Anders Tegnell, Sweden's chief epidemiologist, told the journal Nature, "closing borders, in my opinion, is ridiculous."

The government's plan centered around long-term goals — the idea countries can't stay in total lockdown forever. The Swedish lockdown was more relaxed. They hoped "herd immunity" would slow down the spread of infections. Initially, most Swedes were on board with the plan.

Those officials were wrong.

In the weeks that followed, the death toll mounted. Sweden's death rate rose to become one of the world's highest, almost equal to that of Italy.

Sweden's domestic consensus is now being tested as countries reopen with eased rules that, ironically, now make them look much like Sweden. Most of them arrived at that point with far fewer deaths.