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The man leading Sweden's coronavirus response says the country's elevated death toll "really came as a surprise to us."
Dr. Anders Tegnell, Sweden's state epidemiologist, appeared on "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah" on Tuesday, when he described the country's controversial approach.
"We never really calculated with a high death toll initially, I must say," he said.
"We calculated on more people being sick, but the death toll really came as a surprise to us."
https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-sweden-lockdown-chief-says-high-death-toll-was-surprise-2020-5
elleng
(130,864 posts)but not surprising I guess; no one knew.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)Tegnell is an arrogant idiot.
brush
(53,764 posts)The difference being that trump doesn't care how many die as long as the stock market rebounds.
live love laugh
(13,100 posts)Corgigal
(9,291 posts)the lying nazi.
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)Where I'm working we don't have face masks at all, and we are working with the most vulnerable people," one Swedish home care worker, who wanted to remain anonymous, recently told the Guardian. "Everybody's concerned about it. We are all worried." https://www.businessinsider.com/sweden-coronavirus-strategy-explained-culture-of-trust-and-obedience-2020-4?r=US&IR=T
And yet Tegnell is "surprised" by the high elderly death rate. Apparently he never heard of asymptomatic spread.
Quixote1818
(28,928 posts)rpannier
(24,329 posts)Says the stupid.
DFW
(54,341 posts)Vilken överraskning!
(What a surprise!)
Who are the Swedes getting their advice from, "Sven" Hannity?
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)before they launched this experiment with the lives of their people. Apparently the general mood is supportive, though, Sweden's going its own way even becoming a matter of national pride.
harumph
(1,898 posts)or he experimented on his nation knowing full well what would occur and now is playing dumb.
That's a classic fall back position -