Around the world, those decrying pandemic restrictions seized on Sweden as an alternative model. “Without locking down13, Sweden—and this is the key—has fared far better than other European countries that did lock down,” declared the Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson. There was one problem with this assessment: Sweden’s strategy was a disaster. By the summer of 2020, more than five thousand people were dead in a country of 10 million people, giving Sweden one of the worst per capita death rates on earth, and exponentially higher than in neighboring countries—twelve times worse than Norway,
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