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. 2020 Aug;113(8):292-298.
doi: 10.1177/0141076820945282.

Four months into the COVID-19 pandemic, Sweden's prized herd immunity is nowhere in sight

Eric J W Orlowski  1 , David J A Goldsmith  2
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Four months into the COVID-19 pandemic, Sweden's prized herd immunity is nowhere in sight

Eric J W Orlowski et al. J R Soc Med. 2020 Aug.
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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
(a) This portrays the Government Response Stringency Index which melds severity and timing of imposed or recommended mitigatory measures. Figure 1(b) shows the daily new COVID-19 deaths per million population. Sweden had a clearly more severe death rate, and for much longer, than did its Scandinavian neighbours.
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