What I learned from the COVID-19 response in Sweden

Time will be the ultimate judge. However, the numbers so far indicate that Canada’s approach has been vastly more effective than Sweden’s in keeping down the relative number of cases and deaths. Indeed, most countries share Canada’s, not Sweden’s, approach in dealing with the COVID-19 crisis.

Most countries share Canada’s, not Sweden’s, approach in dealing with the COVID-19 crisis. And now, in Sweden, there is growing pressure to adapt more enforced measures too, writes Mohammad-Reza Ghovanloo.Photograph courtesy of Pexels.com

Opinion

BY MOHAMMAD-REZA GHOVANLOO

April 27, 2020

Earlier this year, I left my home in Vancouver to start working as a visiting researcher in Stockholm, Sweden. The world has changed significantly since that time. Being away from home while the COVID-19 crisis grew from purported “media-borne hype” to the extraordinary pandemic it is today, has...

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