Sweden, alone among its Scandinavian neighbors, adopted a tactic like this, aiming to isolate the vulnerable and aged while allowing the young and healthy to go about their business as sensibly as possible in order to achieve sufficient levels of population immunity. By May 2020, Sweden had at least four times the rate of COVID-19 deaths as its Nordic neighbors with similar demographics and economies, and it began to gingerly correct its course.26 Ultimately, the architect behind the strategy admitted that the policy had not worked out as planned.27 Crucially, the Swedish economy was just as
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