Did the Swedish model for the coronavirus work?

Statistics show that Sweden last week averaged 6.25 deaths per day for 1 million people. By comparison, Great Britain recorded an average of 5,75 deaths per day in the same seven - day period, Belgium on average 4.6, France on average, 3.49 and Italy on average, so that while Sweden has had far fewer cases of coronary than the larger countries of Italy and Germany, the number of per capita deaths is among the highest in the world.

The reason may be required in the election of the Stockholm government led by Social Prime Minister Stefan Löfven. Sweden never imposed isolation on its citizens at home, preferring to encourage each one's personal responsibility. The main instructions were for them to stay home when they are sick and keep their social distance when they are in public. Most companies, restaurants, bars and schools remained open.

Johann Giesecke, a former prominent Swedish epidemiologist, now health advisers at the World Health Organisation, defended his country's policy and said national impasses simply delay the inevitable number of cases of corruption and death. “There is very little we can do to prevent infection“, he wrote in an article published in Lancet earlier this month. “Mass isolation may simply delay serious cases for some time, but once restrictions are eased, cases will resurface“, he said. “I expect that when we count the number of deaths for Ovid 19 in each country in one year, the numbers will be similar, regardless of the measures taken“, he's done.

However, a final answer can not be given to the success or success of the strategy the Swedish government chose in the fight against the coronavirus. Health experts predict a second wave of the epidemic in the coming months, and if one becomes reality, then we can see more clearly whether Sweden was right or the rest of the world that chose to isolate itself.