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COVID-19 and the Swedish enigma
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“In contrast with its neighbour, Norway, Sweden's response was lax,229 resulting in a much higher death rate (about 1500 deaths per million population).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Claeson, M., & Hanson, S.
- Affiliations
- Results for Development Institute (US)
- Corresponding author
- Claeson, Mariam
- ORCID
- Claeson, Mariam
- Venue
- The Lancet
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2021-01
- Volume
- 397
- Issue
- 10271
- Pages
- 259-261
- ISSN
- 0099-5355 (ISSN-L)
- 0140-6736
- PMC
- PMC7755568
- OpenAlex
- W3117737502
- Cited by
- 150
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 48 · 2022: 43 · 2021: 34
- FWCI
- 4.97
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- The Lancet (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Modeling and Simulation › COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › COVID-19 Prevention and Impact
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Infectious Diseases › SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- Keywords
- COVID-19 pandemic, Sweden, second wave, COVID-19 mortality, case fatality, Nordic comparison, pandemic response, public health policy
- MeSH terms
- COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 Vaccines, Communicable Disease Control, Humans, Sweden, Disease Transmission, Infectious, Pandemics
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