ArticleSSM - population health2021
The New Totalitarians: The Swedish COVID-19 strategy and the implications of consensus culture and media policy for public health.
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- The statistical evidence missing from the Swedish decision-making of COVID-19 strategy during the early period: A longitudinal observational analysis.SSM - population health · 2022Article
- Dataset: COVID-19 epidemic policy and events timeline (Sweden).Data in brief · 2022Article
- National health governance, science and the media: drivers of COVID-19 responses in Germany, Sweden and the UK in 2020.BMJ global health · 2021Review
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Abstract
aimsThe aim is to discuss implications of consensus culture in combination with media policy in Sweden with regard to the Swedish COVID-19 strategy in the spring of 2020.
methodsInvestigation of prerequisites for scrutiny by the Swedish mass media of the Swedish strategy in the spring of 2020 based on discussion regarding consensus culture, media structure and postmodernism in science, politics and administration.
resultsThe Swedish strategy entailed strong initial confidence in herd immunity (although not officially stated), individual responsibility, evidence based medicine and substantial neglect to cooperate internationally. The strategy may be regarded partly as a result of the postmodern view of science and society predominant in Sweden. A tradition of top down consensus culture combined with mass media's financial and partly structural dependence of the state may help explain the comparative lack of critical questions regarding the strategy at the press conferences in the spring of 2020.
conclusionsMass media in Sweden should become more financially and structurally independent of the state. The reporting by Swedish media in the spring of 2020 should be subject to peer-reviewed research.
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