The pros and cons of Sweden’s pandemic approach
Early in the pandemic, Sweden carried on life with few official restrictions. Now, cases are increasing and the government just announced a strict round of COVID-19 measures. We get perspectives for and against that early approach, from Dr. Anna Mia Ekstrom, a professor of global infectious disease epidemiology and an infectious disease physician at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, and Andrew Ewing, professor of molecular biology and chemistry at the University of Gothenburg and a member of the Swedish Academy of Sciences.