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Review
. 2021 Jul;129(7):320-323.
doi: 10.1111/apm.13112. Epub 2021 Feb 23.

The Swedish public health response to COVID-19

Anders Tegnell  1
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Review

The Swedish public health response to COVID-19

Anders Tegnell. APMIS. 2021 Jul.

Abstract

The Swedish COVID-19 response has received excessive attention, despite not having distinctively different goals or features than other countries. The overall response has included almost all sectors of society and cannot be described here. Instead, this paper provides a general, brief description of the response from a public health perspective, but hopefully it gives a somewhat more nuanced picture of the efforts to combat COVID-19 in Sweden.

Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; Sweden; response.

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