Sweden’s Pandemic Experiment

Introduction Sweden Stumbles along the Third Way 1. In the rupture between this and another world to come: introductory remarks on pandemic emergency and Sweden’s response 2.A timeline of events: December 2019 to February 2022 3. On the virology of SARS-CoV-2 and an expert authority without real experts: was there a deliberate disinformation from the Public Health Agency of Sweden on theSARS-CoV-2 infection’s spread in the population? 4.The COVID-19-pandemic and the Swedish strategy: central aspects of the strategy in relation to evidence-based medicine criteria 5.The Swedish COVID-19 response: from poorly judged utilitarianism to history revisionism and the tragedy of the commons 6.Learning from failure: mastering a pandemic in the triad of science, politics and trust 7.Epidemiology and COVID-19: why numbers are important and can be misleading 8.The political economy of estimating immunity levels 9.Children at the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic 10.The biopolitics of herd immunity 11.Collaborators, supporters, and science judges: how trust in the Public Health Agency’s messaging was achieved 12.Sweden unmasked: reading state and society through the pandemic 13. A drastic end to a long story of success in Swedish preventive medicine