Swedish policy analysis for Covid-19

Kavaliūnas, Andrius; Ocaya, Pauline; Mumper, Jim; Lindfeldt, Isis; Kyhlstedt, Mattias

doi:10.1016/j.hlpt.2020.08.009

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“…Regional differences were large, with the Stockholm region, which is home to 22.3% of the Swedish population, being severely affected. More details on regional differences can be found on the Statistics Sweden website and in Kavaliunas et al 1 …”

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“…Earlier reviews on Sweden's pandemic response have been published, 1 but there have been little data on what has set Sweden apart from other countries. These differences include the timing of pandemic‐related actions, the way that COVID‐19 has been coded in medical records, how different parts of the healthcare system reacted to the pandemic and the legal framework covering the relationship between the Government and other actors.…”

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The first eight months of Sweden’s COVID‐19 strategy and the key actions and actors that were involved

2020

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The World Health Organization (WHO) classified COVID-19 as a threat to human health on January 30, 2020, and upgraded it to a pandemic on March 11. Since then, many countries have taken extensive steps to restrict transmission, but Sweden adopted a more measured approach, without the national lockdowns instigated by many of its European neighbours. The actions taken in Sweden in the eight months up to September 1, and the key actors who were involved, can be seen in the detailed timeline that accompanies this paper (Figure 1). Earlier reviews on Sweden's pandemic response have been published, 1 but there have been little data on what has set Sweden apart from other countries. These differences include the timing of pandemic-related actions, the way that COVID-19 has been coded

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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The first eight months of Sweden’s COVID‐19 strategy and the key actions and actors that were involved

2020

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“…More data is required to ascertain the specific consequences of different approaches. For now, however, the Swedish case at least suggests that much can be achieved by means of voluntary measures (Kavaliunas et al 2020).…”

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COVID-19: Against a Lockdown Approach

Kraaijeveld

2020

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Governments around the world have faced the challenge of how to respond to the recent outbreak of a novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Some have reacted by greatly restricting the freedom of citizens, while others have opted for less drastic policies. In this paper, I draw a parallel with vaccination ethics to conceptualize two distinct approaches to COVID-19 that I call altruistic and lockdown. Given that the individual measures necessary to limit the spread of the virus can in principle be achieved voluntarily as well as through enforcement, the question arises of how much freedom governments ought to give citizens to adopt the required measures. I argue that an altruistic approach is preferable on moral grounds: it preserves important citizen freedoms, avoids a number of potential injustices, and gives people a much-needed sense of meaning in precarious times.

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“…At no time has Sweden been comparable to Northern Italy. Rather, Sweden has always contained the spread of the coronavirus to such an extent that the numbers of COVID-19 cases have always been below the maximum capacity of its health systemexactly as shown in Figure 1 (Kavaliunas et al 2020). Therefore, if we measure the Swedish strategy against the official 'norm text', then we find that Sweden has actually been very successful in complying with the ostensible norm.…”

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Dying is normal, dying with the coronavirus is not: a sociological analysis of the implicit norms behind the criticism of Swedish ‘exceptionalism’

Grothe‐Hammer

Roth

2020

European Societies

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From the outset of the coronavirus crisis, Sweden has been heavyily criticized for its exceptional pandemic mitigation policy. Sweden is often accused pursuing an abnormal and 'disastrous strategy' that puts its citizens' lives at risk. In this article, we analyze the most widespread criticisms of Swedish 'exceptionalism', in order to identify and describe the prevailing implicit norms on which the criticisms are based. While the explicitly proclaimed norms assert that the anti-pandemic measures are aimed at keeping the number of infections below the maximum capacities of the national health systems, the implicit norms turn out to be significantly different, i.e. primarily about the number of coronavirus-related deaths. Moreover, we point out that this norm is not about protecting lives in general, but only about protecting people from dying with a coronavirus infection. We argue that this implicit norm is asymmetric and therefore not tenable, because it implies that a death from the coronavirus is considered more important than a death from another infection. Against this backdrop, we conclude by discussing possible future developments of this norm and call for an international public debate about how much protection against infectious diseases society should provide in generalnot only against one particular disease.

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Swedish policy analysis for Covid-19

Cited by 94 publications

References 18 publications

The first eight months of Sweden’s COVID‐19 strategy and the key actions and actors that were involved

The first eight months of Sweden’s COVID‐19 strategy and the key actions and actors that were involved

COVID-19: Against a Lockdown Approach

Dying is normal, dying with the coronavirus is not: a sociological analysis of the implicit norms behind the criticism of Swedish ‘exceptionalism’

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