Sweden becomes country with highest coronavirus death rate per capita

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Sweden has now overtaken the UK, Italy and Belgium to have the highest coronavirus per capita death rate in the world, throwing its decision to avoid a strict lockdown into further doubt.

But as its neighbours in Norway, Denmark, and Finland, who all put in place much tighter restrictions, have seen dramatically lower numbers of deaths over the past month, the strategy has also come under growing criticism.

Frodo Forland, Norway's state epidemiologist, last week complained that there had been almost no critical debate or media coverage of the high death rate in Sweden.

"It feels like you want to support your own government and strategy," he told the Svenska Dagbladet newspaper. "But Sweden is going against the whole world."

Lena Einhorn, a Swedish virologist and author, told the Daily Telegraph that she was frustrated that Tegnell and his team still refused to alter the country's strategy despite growing evidence of failure.

"They have made a decision and if they admit they have taken a bad decision that means taking responsibility for creating a bad situation," she said.

There were people posting here saying how Russia did such a great job from the start and had no infections. By closing their border. where are those people now? Russia is now the second worst impacted country in the world after the United States.

Uh Brock, is there a link that confirms this stat? Because Worldometers says different.
Don’t get me wrong, I personally believe that the Swedish way of dealing this is at best a big gamble, but at worst, utter madness!

Google The Telegraph of today's date and my name if you care to get it from ME is Bob.

If you wanted to hide your identity you shouldn’t have used info I shared with you when we used to talk via email. You shouldn’t have disliked long time members posts on your first day, became friends with beanz on your first day, and try to change your writing style going as far as forgetting English when you were confronted early on. You were much too loud since day one, you should have played it cool. It was so obvious on day one but I was surprised you slipped up and used info I told you off the forum I figure you were probably drinking that night but most of us knew from the get it was you anyway