The Covid-19 crisis was still in its infancy, but the Nordic nation normally lauded for its social safety net had already emerged as a global pandemic pariah. * Covid-19 NZ: What the end of the pandemic looks like* Sweden's Covid-19 plan a disaster waiting to happen or a bold, evidence-based response? Giesecke – one of the most public defenders of the Swedish strategy – and Kiwi epidemiologist and architect of New Zealand’s elimination strategy, Michael Baker, are friends. That was the basis of the Swedish strategy. They are not disappearing.”He told Good Morning Britain: “I think we should wait a year in comparing deaths in different countries...

Source: Stuff December 13, 2021 18:11 UTC