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A Swede saved Norway in the pandemic. We may not be as lucky next time.

He was “the right man in the right place during this crisis.” A Swedish and a Twitter message secured Norway vaccines as the whole world fought for the scarce doses.

A busy Swedish bureaucrat in the corridors of the Swedish government in the Post Office in Stockholm in December 2020. Vaccine coordinator Richard Bergström and Sweden “have done more for Norway in this matter than could be expected from a neighboring country”, according to the Korona Commission. What did he do?

More than four million Norwegians walk around with two doses of vaccine. Norway is one of the world’s most vaccinated countries.

We can largely thank a Swede for that.

Norwegian politicians and professionals have punished Sweden through the pandemic. But few have seen the story of how Swedish Richard Bergström mountain Norway. And gave Norway a way out of the pandemic.

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