FlyRod said:
No.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-022-01097-5
After skimming that article there does not seem to be much data about actual results of Sweden's approach, other than the unsupported statement in the abstract: "During 2020, however, Sweden had ten times higher COVID-19 death rates compared with neighbouring Norway."
Why did they limit that statement to 2020? Why not through today or a longer period? The limitation is concerning because I thought that the argument for Sweden's approach is that while it may have taken more short-term damage from its approach, its long-term damage (including long term death rates) was better than the other Scandinavian countries, including Norway.
The article focuses entirely on Sweden's refusal to follow the recommendations of scientists, apparently assuming that the scientists were correct. It is an argument that Sweden did not follow the correct bureaucratic approach, rather than showing data that Sweden's approach failed.
The article also makes many assertions of fact without providing any citation or support for those assertions, such as the statement that masks work.
Although I am quite sympathetic to the point of the article, I found it to be far less than persuasive and more of a shrill complaint by scientists that they were not obeyed without question.