Anders Tegnell Quotes

En los primeros días de junio, el artífice de la primera estrategia, el epidemiólogo nacido en Upsala, Anders Tegnell, reconocía que la decisión de «no imponer un bloqueo estricto» provocó «demasiadas muertes» en ese país.16

Swedish public health authorities led by Dr Anders Tegnell and Professor Johan Giesecke decided that the only sustainable way to deal with this kind of respiratory pathogen would be to let it flow through the population, and avoid the economic and social costs

For several years pre-Covid, Sweden had an independent health authority. Its chief scientist was Anders Tegnell, in turn supported by like-minded Swedish academics such as Johan Giesecke. This independent authority had 600 workers. The role of this body was to set health policy around viruses and similar biological threats in a manner independent of politics. When Covid erupted, its leaders had the authority to enact the blueprints that it had prepared for such an eventuality. No lockdowns, no coercion, full information and open debate became the order of the day. Other countries could also organise their