Covid-19-pandemin och den svenska strategin : Epidemiologi, postmodernism och svensk exceptionalism
(2021) In Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift 123(5). p.93-124- Abstract
- Aims The aim is to characterize the underlying epidemiological ideas behind the Swedish COVID-19 strategy in the spring of 2020 and their plausible relation to Swedish exceptionalism and postmodern view of science. The aim is not to finally evaluate the long-term handling of the pandemic in Sweden. Results Overconfidence in natural herd immunity (although not officially stated), individual responsibility (in a pandemic needing community-centered approaches) and evidence-based med-icine (predominantly applied to protective measures), and neglect to coordinate with the WHO, other EU countries and the Nordic countries, may be associated with Swedish exceptionalism and a postmodern view of science and society. ConclusionsEpidemiological... (More)
- Aims The aim is to characterize the underlying epidemiological ideas behind the Swedish COVID-19 strategy in the spring of 2020 and their plausible relation to Swedish exceptionalism and postmodern view of science. The aim is not to finally evaluate the long-term handling of the pandemic in Sweden. Results Overconfidence in natural herd immunity (although not officially stated), individual responsibility (in a pandemic needing community-centered approaches) and evidence-based med-icine (predominantly applied to protective measures), and neglect to coordinate with the WHO, other EU countries and the Nordic countries, may be associated with Swedish exceptionalism and a postmodern view of science and society. ConclusionsEpidemiological handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and Swedish exceptionalism and postmodernism seems to have been a questionable and fatal combination in the initial phase of the pandemic. Covid-19-pandemin och den svenska strateginCovid-19-pandemin nådde samhällsspridning i många europeiska länder under senare delen av februari och början av mars 2020, även om enskilda individer kan ha varit smittade så tidigt som redan under senare delen av 2019 utan att smittan var känd vid den tiden. Det första europeiska landet som drabbades av omfattande samhällsspridning var Italien. I de från början värst drabbade länderna Italien och Spanien underskattades allvaret i situationen i den initiala fasen, och denna underskattning blev snart också uppenbar i till
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- Lindström, Martin LU
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- The Covid-19 pandemic and the Swedish strategy : Epidemiology, postmodernism and Swedish exceptionalism
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- 2021-06
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- Contribution to journal
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- Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift
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- 123
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- 5
- pages
- 93 - 124
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- Fahlbeckska stiftelsen
- ISSN
- 0039-0747
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- Swedish
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- yes
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- 1d6bdab3-a19b-484d-b46e-c7a06f3aa6cf
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