By just about any measure the Swedish “no lockdown” policy for handling COVID-19 is a failure. Not as bad as the US, though. From The Dispatch.

“While Sweden’s death numbers compare favorably to the U.S., they stand in stark negative contrast to our Scandinavian neighbors who introduced lockdown measures: Per capita, we have nearly five times as many deaths as Denmark, nine times as many as Finland, and more than ten times as many as Norway.

COVID-19 and the Failure of Swedish Exceptionalism