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SVT Agenda lobbied Stefan Löfven, Anders Tegnell and Lena Hallengren on the strategy of the Swedish crown. Tough questions arose from the presenters, but Anders Tegnell stood his ground.
Stefan Löfven says that he takes full responsibility for the Swedish strategy.
– Yes, of course, I am prime minister.
Anders Tegnell was in trouble at SVT Agenda. However, it did not take him long to defend his line.
Why do we release the infection? Why don’t we try more? Why didn’t we have a crash? Why did we introduce home quarantine so late? Why was herd immunity so important? The presenters’ questions fully praised Tegnell, who seemed remarkably pressured.
– No one has intentionally released the infection. Our strategy has been to spread the infection as slowly as possible and at the lowest possible level. We have slowed down as much as possible without having too serious consequences for, for example, the school, says Tegnell.
The state epidemiologist also received critical questions about why the strategy to track infections ceased. In a clip from earlier this spring, Tegnell said it wasn’t worth it because the infection was so great.
Today, Tegnell says the reason was that Sweden didn’t have the resources then, but had to prioritize them in hospitals to ensure medical care.
– We have always tried the best we can and now we have amassed the resources and therefore we test everyone today.
The coordinator of the regions said that the Public Health Agency was not lying and spoke enough about how important it was to carry out the tests: “They should have said that we needed more money to expand the capacity of the tests,” he said in the review of program assignment.
But Tegnell refutes the criticism, saying it is not a question of money.
– You cannot evoke people who can detect an infection. It needs to be trained and employed. Also, in Sweden we have 21 regions that are self-determined, they also needed to change their operations.
– I can’t understand why you don’t think we thought it was important. We have vacuumed the entire country in search of resources, Tegnell responds a little resigned.
As for the confinements, Anders Tegnell still makes it clear that he insists that he does not believe in them.
Hostess Camilla Kvartoft asks if Tegnell can name a country where things have gone better than Sweden, even though they have no longer closed.
– It is quite difficult because almost all the countries that Sweden closed more than Sweden. I cannot reach a country with my right arm.
Camilla Kvartoft asks again if Tegnell can name a country. Can not.
Löfven: He wants to thank the people of Sweden
Then it was time for Stefan Löfven to sit in the audience chair. The first question they asked you was: Do you take full responsibility for Sweden’s strategy?
– Yes, of course, I am prime minister.
Löfven was hard-pressed by Swedish restrictions. But he noted that Sweden was very successful at the start of the pandemic.
– We must remind ourselves that the spread of the infection was significantly reduced during the spring. We had a flatter curve than many other countries, he says.
He believes that the people of Sweden have behaved well.
– I want to thank the Swedes who did everything possible. I mean that many made a good effort, many have worked at home since March.
He was also pressured by the new pandemic law, which began to be prepared in August, was it too late?
No, thinks Löfven.
– These are powerful measures, decisions that are not easy to make. You can’t get it out in a week or two. It takes time, says Löfven.
Hallengren: many are responsible
Hostess Camilla Kvartoft wonders if the Minister of Social Affairs, Lena Hallengren, is responsible for so many older people dying in covid-19.
– It is taking in making such a formulation. Many are responsible for how we have been able to handle the pandemic. Now we have seen that the measures we took this spring have paid off, says Social Affairs Minister Lena Hallengren.
– But we have to work on medical competence in geriatric care.
Lena Hallengren believes that it is “almost impossible” to answer what the government could have done differently, so that fewer older people were affected.
– I do not see that we are facing any measure from which we abstained, says Hallengren.
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