SWECOV is the Swedish Register-based Research Program on COVID-19. It’s official name is Ett forskningsprogram om covid-19 i Sverige: Smittspridning, bekämpning och effekter på individer och samhälle. SWECOV is a multidisciplinary research collaboration using empirical methods and comprehensive register data about the whole Swedish population to answer important questions about the consequences of the pandemic.

Read about our ongoing and finished projects below. For more information about the program, and how to apply to participate, look under the About us and Participation pages respectively.

Research projects

• Ongoing

  Understanding social inequalities in Covid-19 testing behavior

  Olof Östergren, Arizo Karimi, Emelie Counil, Jonas Björk, Tove Fall, and Karl Gauffin

• Ongoing

  Predicting disease transmission dynamics during early phases of pandemics using machine learning models with mobility data

  Dominik Dietler, Thomas Eriksson, Malin Inghammar, and Jonas Björk

• Published

  Predictors of COVID-19 outcomes among residents of Swedish long-term care facilities – a nationwide study of the year 2020

  Jenna Najar, Rasmus Broms, Marina Nistotskaya, and Carl Dahlström

• Ongoing

  Inequality and COVID-19 in Sweden

  Adam Altmejd, Evelina Björkegren, Torsten Persson, and Olof Östergren

• Ongoing

  Sweden's COVID-19 Recession: How Foreign and Domestic Infections Struck against Firms and Workers

  Anders Akerman, Karolina Ekholm, Torsten Persson, and Oskar N. Skans