Sunday night wrote Swedish Expressen that infection control expert Jan Albert at Karolinska Institutet stated SVT program Agenda that he believes that state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell made an incorrect assessment when he said in August that he thought that Sweden would have a relatively small spread of infection last autumn.
– It has turned out that it was not a correct assessment. I think it may have led to them (the Public Health Agency journ.anm.), Politicians and authorities, as well as the general public, not understanding that it picked up again, just as it did in other European countries a few weeks earlier, said Albert, according to Expressen.
Both Albert and his colleague Karin Modig at Karolinska Institutet also stated that they believe that Sweden was too slow to introduce sufficiently strict infection control measures when the epidemic in Sweden started in the spring of 2020.
“Here he has taken his mouth too full”
Measures
Director of Studies Frode Forland at the National Institute of Public Health has previously stated Dagbladet that he believes that Sweden is paying the price for handling the first phase, where not as strict infection control measures were introduced as in Norway.
– What has happened in Sweden, and which has largely happened in countries such as Italy, Spain and France, is that they got so much spread of infection in the first phase, that they really could not put it down before the infection was about with flare up again, said Forland.
In the spring of 2020, Norway closed both schools and borders, while Sweden chose to stay open. In addition to the Swedes mainly complying with recommendations, they also allowed open gyms and events with up to 500 participants.
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