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Posted on: July 6, 2020 at 17:00:29 CT
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State epidemiologist Anders Tegnell was questioned by Swedish and international media on Wednesday following his statement that Sweden could in hindsight have acted differently in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Sweden's decision not to impose a strict lockdown as seen elsewhere in Europe has attracted comment and criticism for months. Tegnell has regularly stated that the Swedish Public Health Agency believes Sweden's strategy of keeping the number of cases within the limit the healthcare can handle through mostly voluntary measures is working mostly well, despite admitting failures in testing capacity and protecting residents of elderly care homes.
At Wednesday's press conference, many of the questions focused on Tegnell's recent comments to Swedish radio, in which he said Sweden would have chosen a strategy "between what Sweden did and what the rest of the world has done", had authorities had the knowledge they now have at the start of the outbreak.
On Wednesday afternoon, he clarified that the agency was still confident in its strategy, but was constantly receiving new information about the virus and evaluating the methods used.
"It has spread in the news that I, and we at [the Public Health Agency] believe the strategy we used was wrong and should be changed in a drastic way. That is not at all the case. We still believe that the strategy is good, but there are always improvements, you can always make it better," he clarified.
Tegnell told The Local in May that the agency was "constantly changing" its communications in response to new challenges. One example was the case of restaurants; the agency introduced restrictions after seeing they posed a high risk of infections, and then tightened restrictions so that those breaking restrictions risked being closed down.
"We still think that the strategy is good, but you can always make improvements, especially when looking back. I personally think it would be rather strange if anyone answered anything else to such a question. You can always do things better," he said on Wednesday, adding that he did not necessarily think he had been misquoted, but that his comments had been overinterpreted.
https://www.thelocal.se/20200603/swedens-anders-tegnell-questioned-over-strategy-and-errors
In which case, you are running with bad information. He does not regret the way that Sweden handled the coronavirus. And why would he? He was the one public health official that was right.
Sweden's decision not to impose a strict lockdown as seen elsewhere in Europe has attracted comment and criticism for months. Tegnell has regularly stated that the Swedish Public Health Agency believes Sweden's strategy of keeping the number of cases within the limit the healthcare can handle through mostly voluntary measures is working mostly well, despite admitting failures in testing capacity and protecting residents of elderly care homes.
At Wednesday's press conference, many of the questions focused on Tegnell's recent comments to Swedish radio, in which he said Sweden would have chosen a strategy "between what Sweden did and what the rest of the world has done", had authorities had the knowledge they now have at the start of the outbreak.
On Wednesday afternoon, he clarified that the agency was still confident in its strategy, but was constantly receiving new information about the virus and evaluating the methods used.
"It has spread in the news that I, and we at [the Public Health Agency] believe the strategy we used was wrong and should be changed in a drastic way. That is not at all the case. We still believe that the strategy is good, but there are always improvements, you can always make it better," he clarified.
Tegnell told The Local in May that the agency was "constantly changing" its communications in response to new challenges. One example was the case of restaurants; the agency introduced restrictions after seeing they posed a high risk of infections, and then tightened restrictions so that those breaking restrictions risked being closed down.
"We still think that the strategy is good, but you can always make improvements, especially when looking back. I personally think it would be rather strange if anyone answered anything else to such a question. You can always do things better," he said on Wednesday, adding that he did not necessarily think he had been misquoted, but that his comments had been overinterpreted.
https://www.thelocal.se/20200603/swedens-anders-tegnell-questioned-over-strategy-and-errors
In which case, you are running with bad information. He does not regret the way that Sweden handled the coronavirus. And why would he? He was the one public health official that was right.
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