ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an annotated timeline of the most crucial events, decisions and statements in the Swedish handling of the pandemic from December 2019 to February 2022. As Sweden and Norway are quite similar in many epidemiologically significant parameters and counter factors are relatively insignificant, one can get both a mathematically and epidemiologically reliable comparative image of what could have happened in Sweden if it would have simply applied the same pandemic response as its neighbour. Recently the apologists for the strategy have proposed that Sweden has been more successful than other countries. Although the Government and the Agency underlined the seriousness of the situation the restrictions seemed to be rather weak than strong. Sweden was of course not alone in navigating more or less badly in the stormy ocean of SARS-CoV-2, and not everything that Sweden did was wrong.
