3/23/21 - Sweden's restrictions - https://www.thelocal.se/20210323/covid-19-across-europe-how-countries-are-tightening-restrictions-while-others-are-easing-them/

Sweden – ‘The key is for people to follow the rules’

Sweden, where the incidence rate is 604 per 100,000 [the highest in Europe] has mostly relied on fewer of the strict, legal measures seen elsewhere. Some of the measures introduced since December include reducing the maximum number of people allowed at public events to eight; ordering all restaurants, cafes and bars to close no later than 8.30pm; and introducing caps on customer numbers at shops, gyms and sports facilities to a maximum of one per ten square metres of usable space. All of these are regulated by law.

Restaurants, bars, and non-essential businesses are still open however, and the number of people you may meet privately is not regulated. Masks were for a long time not recommended for use by the public in Sweden but currently they are recommended on public transport during rush hour. Several regions have gone further and urged residents to wear them at all times on public transport as well as in other indoor environments where crowding could occur, but reports show uptake has been low

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53664354 - Coronavirus: Sweden's economy hit less hard by pandemic - 8/5/20

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-05/swedish-economy-grew-less-than-expected-during-lull-in-pandemic - Swedish Economy Grew Less Than Expected During Summer Lull - 11/5/20

GNP 2020 -2.8% https://www.focus-economics.com/country-indicator/sweden/gdp GDP EU -6.4% https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/portlet_file_entry/2995521/2-02022021-AP-EN.pdf/0e84de9c-0462-6868-df3e-dbacaad9f49f

From above Bloomberg article: "The biggest Nordic economy has so far weathered the pandemic better than most, and is set to contract only about half as much as euro zone GDP this year. Bankruptcies so far this year are even lower than in 2019."

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/05/what-swedens-restaurants-learned-staying-open-in-pandemic - Sweden’s Restaurants Stayed Open in the Pandemic. This Is What Their Chefs Learned. 5/1/20

July 1st Sweden #5 deaths per million - https://web.archive.org/web/20200701153230/https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants/

Nov. 1st Sweden #22 deaths per million - https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants

Deaths per million graph 8 countries - https://covidgraph.com/#dailypermillion - click on deaths, cases increasing

Number of deaths as per Johns Hopkins website at: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Date Calif. Sweden % diff US

4/1 184  368 +100% 4,394 11.9x

4/8 507 821 +62% 12,857 15.7

4/15 889 1,333 +50% 26,208 19.7

5/6 2,464 3,040 +23% 71,152 23.4x

6/4 4,385 4,542 +4% 107,235 23.6x