Table 3.

Performance of countries that adopted the mitigation strategy in the first year of the pandemic

Country	Deaths per million by the end of 202010	Quarterly GDP change in 2020 versus the same period in 2019 (%)11				Results
		Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
Sweden	858.9	0.1	−8.2	−1.9	−1.8	The government introduced more stringent control measures in November 2020, such as banning social gatherings. In December 2020 hospitals in Stockholm were under severe pressure and intensive care beds almost reached capacity.
UK	1079.4	−2.2	−21.4	−8.1	−7.1	The UK switched to suppression in April 2020 and daily incidence began to decline. The country maintained a relatively stable number of daily cases and deaths before easing public health interventions in June 2020. As cases started to rise in September 2020, the government tightened public health measures again.