I don't disagree with you per se. I think it's debatable how they differ. If you just search Tegnell and Herd immunity you will find that many news sources has

I don't disagree with you per se. I think it's debatable how they differ. If you just search Tegnell and Herd immunity you will find that many news sources has interpreted the Swedish model as herd immunity. Herd immunity is horrible word, and none wants to use it anymore. But because flattening the curve does leave the virus linging around, it in many practies is same as "flatten the curve" as pointed by epidemologists: > The "Flatten The Curve" plan was touted by every public health organization, while the United Kingdom's original "herd immunity" plan was universally booed. They were the same plan. The UK just communicated theirs poorly. [1] https://ncase.me/covid-19/ https://ncase.me/covid-19/