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The question of whether the government and the Public Health Agency chose a strategy that would allow the spread of the infection to a certain level in Sweden haunts the ministers responsible and the state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell.
The subject is extremely sensitive because the Crown Commission has already pointed to the wide spread of the infection in the country as the main explanation for the high Swedish death rates in the care of the elderly.
When Lena Hallengren was pressed recently in a hearing at SVT about this, she dismissed the issue very firmly.
– We do not have a strategy, we have not had a strategy and we will not have a strategy that says that we think it is okay with some spread of the infection. We will reduce the spread of the infection as much as possible, he said.
The meaning was quietly erased
Anders Tegnell has also denied that a certain spread of the infection has been allowed, despite the fact that in previous statements, including in DN in March last year, he spoke of the importance of a “calm and careful spread” so as not to overload the assistance. sanitary.
Therefore, it attracted a lot of attention when journalist Emanuel Karlsten revealed on Monday that a sentence about this was quietly deleted on the government website, Expressen reported Monday.
In an article on Government.se entitled “Strategy against the new coronavirus” of April 7 of last year, it has been possible to read until sometime at the end of last week:
“The overall goal of the government’s work is to reduce the rate of spread of infection, that is, to flatten the curve so that not many people get sick at the same time.”
But, as Emanuel Karlsten was able to reveal, parts of this were suddenly removed sometime at the end of last week, with no comment anywhere.
What was left was:
“The overall goal of government work is to reduce the spread of infection in society.”
Government website January 26, 2021.
Photo: Screenshot / Government.se
The government website on February 1, where you see that the last paragraph was written as. Later on February 1, however, they have changed again, so it looks like the image above.
Photo: Screenshot / Government.se
Ebba Busch: “The government must respond”
After attention was drawn to the whole matter, government offices explained that it was a mistake and that the wording has been changed again.
– In relation to work on another text, the text on governments was accidentally updated by an employee of the communications department, Cajsa Holm, press secretary for Government Offices said in a comment.
The opposition still demanded that the government get to the bottom of what happened.
It is notable that a basic sentence describing the government’s strategy is actively being removed from the official government website at the same time that the government is increasingly criticized. What really happened? What exactly is the government’s strategy? The government must respond and clarify this, KD leader Ebba Busch said in a comment Monday.
Lena Hallengren: “Lost proportions”
On Tuesday, Expressen asked Lena Hallengren, who participated in a debate at the Riksdag, how she sees the sentence removed and the demand that it be investigated.
– I really have no idea or knowledge about it. We invite you to calculate how many sentences, articles, interviews and speeches we have written, and you will produce a sentence from them, says Lena Hallengren.
But isn’t that just any sentence?
– I have no idea about that.
But have you investigated how it happened?
– Run? In any case, I have not investigated anything.
Do you have any knowledge of how it happened?
– No, I don’t know either. I thought you would ask who and I have absolutely no knowledge of that.
Can you understand that it raises questions because it is not just any sentence? That is a central part of the criticism from the opposition, right?
– Yes and no. It’s clear that if you screw it up a lot and put it in that context, I get it, but I really don’t think there’s any reason. We have not changed any strategy and we have not changed any type of document or similar, but for some reason some meaning has changed. I don’t know anything else about it. But I think there are no proportions. That is my answer.
Won’t you investigate this further?
– Research?
How could that happen? Does the opposition demand answers on this?
– Yes, they want answers to many things.
Will it not be investigated?
– You have such great words. Someone has changed something and I don’t know why.
