Covid‐19 and Sweden: What constitutes success? A response to Fredrik Andersson and Lars Jonung.

The article discusses the response of Sweden to the Covid-19 pandemic and criticizes a previous article that argued against lockdown measures. The author points out errors in the previous article, particularly regarding correlation diagrams, and argues that there was no meaningful relationship between lockdown measures and various outcomes such as excess mortality and government budget deficit. The author also raises the question of what constitutes success in handling the pandemic and suggests that further analysis is needed. The author disagrees with the conclusion of the previous article, stating that mandatory restrictions are an important policy instrument to prevent large death tolls in future pandemics. [Extracted from the article]

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