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Message: <blockquote data-quote="priyade" data-source="post: 26802904" data-attributes="member: 565365"><h3>A year and a half after Sweden decided not to lock down, its COVID-19 death rate is up to 10 times higher than its neighbors</h3>Sweden has recorded more COVID-19 cases per capita than most countries so far: Since the start of the pandemic, roughly 11 out of every 100 people in Sweden have been diagnosed with COVID-19, compared with 9.4 out of every 100 in the UK and 7.4 per 100 in Italy. Sweden has also recorded around 145 COVID-19 deaths for every 100,000 people – around three times more than Denmark, eight times more than Finland, and nearly 10 times more than Norway.Had Sweden implemented tighter rules, experts told Insider, the country might have seen a COVID-19 death toll more similar to those Nordic neighbors.“They underestimated the mortality tremendously,” Claudia Hanson, an associate professor at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, told Insider.“Sweden became a dream for many people to think one can do it differently,” Hanson added. But in retrospect, she said, “it was maybe not a good idea.”<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com.au/sweden-covid-no-lockdown-strategy-failed-higher-death-rate-2021-8?r=US&IR=T" target="_blank">https://www.businessinsider.com.au/sweden-covid-no-lockdown-strategy-failed-higher-death-rate-2021-8?r=US&IR=T</a></blockquote>

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