Norway has been held up as managing covid much better than it's neighbour Sweden.However the director of their public health agency now doesn't think all of the lockdown was necessary particularly the closing of schools.
"Norway’s statistics agency was also the first in the world to calculate the permanent damage inflicted by school closures: every week of classroom education denied to students, it found, stymies life chances and permanently lowers earnings potential. So a country should only enforce this draconian measure if it is sure that the academic foundation for lockdown was sound. And in Stoltenberg’s opinion, ‘the academic foundation was not good enough’ for lockdown this time. "
Norway is assembling a picture of what happened before lockdown and its latest discovery is pretty significant. It is using observed data – hospital figures, infection numbers and so on – to construct a picture of what was happening in March. At the time, no one really knew. It was feared that...
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Again Norway closed their border to all non citizens,Sweden still let in people from the EU and the UK.