{"id":35004,"date":"2022-05-06T17:59:14","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T17:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=35004"},"modified":"2022-05-06T17:59:14","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T17:59:14","slug":"how-swedens-covid-gamble-paid-off-scandinavian-nation-has-suffered-fewer-deaths-in-pandemic-than-majority-of-europe-despite-defying-scientific-advice-by-refusing-to-impose-strict-lockdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2022\/05\/06\/how-swedens-covid-gamble-paid-off-scandinavian-nation-has-suffered-fewer-deaths-in-pandemic-than-majority-of-europe-despite-defying-scientific-advice-by-refusing-to-impose-strict-lockdowns\/","title":{"rendered":"How Sweden&#8217;s Covid gamble paid off: Scandinavian nation has suffered FEWER deaths in pandemic than majority of Europe &#8211; despite defying scientific advice by refusing to impose strict lockdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-23889\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/lockdown1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/lockdown1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/lockdown1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/lockdown1-770x433.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/lockdown1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/lockdown1-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/lockdown1-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/lockdown1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"mol-5746d8a0-cd19-11ec-9224-4b32c6352c9e\" class=\"class\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/sweden\/index.html\">Sweden<\/a>\u00a0has logged one of the lowest pandemic death tolls in Europe despite its refusal to impose lockdowns,\u00a0<a id=\"mol-57430810-cd19-11ec-9224-4b32c6352c9e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/world-health-organization\/index.html\">World Health Organization<\/a> estimates suggest.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10788751\/How-Swedens-Covid-gamble-paid-Nation-suffered-FEWER-deaths-pandemic-majority-Europe.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Sweden\u00a0has logged one of the lowest pandemic death tolls in Europe despite its refusal to impose lockdowns,\u00a0World Health Organization estimates suggest.\u00a0 Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-35004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-covid-19"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/lockdown1.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35005,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35004\/revisions\/35005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}