This is getting down-voted but it is something of a myth that Sweden ever had herd immunity as an officially adopted policy. Yes it was discussed at high levels

This is getting down-voted but it is something of a myth that Sweden ever had herd immunity as an officially adopted policy. Yes it was discussed at high levels but it is not true to say this was the strategy adopted and implemented by the government. This is not a defense of the strategy they did follow, which appears to have failed badly. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53498133 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53498133 > Sweden's authorities never said achieving herd immunity was their goal, but they did argue that by keeping more of society open, Swedes would be more likely to develop a resistance to Covid-19. https://www.politico.eu/article/sweden-coronavirus-didnt-seek-herd-immunity-torbjorn-sohlstrom/ https://www.politico.eu/article/sweden-coronavirus-didnt-see... > Speaking to Times radio on Sunday, Torbjörn Sohlström said that Sweden’s maverick no-lockdown coronavirus response did not seek to boost the number of infections and reach a critical mass of infected to stop the virus from spreading. etc. (It might help to consider what a "herd immunity" strategy would actually look like, vs the extremely light touch they actually took.) Final edit: this was a good look at the handling from a NZ journalist talking to a Swedish researcher from Lund University who looked at the international media coverage. Worth a listen if you want to understand how the "Sweden herd immunity" meme spread https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018769007/how-has-sweden-really-tackled-the-covid-pandemic https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018769007... _and_ how that's hiding some of the negative aspects of the Swedish approach you might not have heard about.