How Sweden stood firm: Anders Tegnell looks back on lockdown
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Pandemics
I was accused by thousands of people on Twitter of being a bad mother who wanted people to die. We really wanted to have the spread as slow as we possibly could do with reasonable measures. And herd immunity, I mean, it's never a goal. It's herd immunity is something that happens. Nothing more, nothing less. The flu epidemic the year before in Sweden was also very mild, which meant that there was quite a big group of very vulnerable, very fragile people around. That of course had some effect on this. When we now look back at the excess mortality,. which we often use for when we want to see how bad something has been, especially the early flu epidemics,
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