'The price you pay': Sweden struggles with 'herd immunity' experiment

'I’d say it hasn’t worked out so well,' said Dr. George Rutherford, professor of epidemiology at the University of California, San Francisco. 'I think the mortality in Norway is something like ten-fold lower. That’s the real comparator.' (Norway's 7-day rolling average death rate is less than .01 per 1 million people.) 'If you let this go or don’t try very hard or go about it in somewhat of a more restrained way rather than we have here, this is the price you pay,' Rutherford said. 'Maybe it didn’t hurt businesses, but you have twice the mortality rate of the United States. All those people who died were part of families and they were citizens and part of the fabric of Swedish society. And now they’re gone because of a policy that hasn’t worked out quite the way they thought it would.'