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Anders Tegnell
Swedish physician and civil servant
Nils Anders Tegnell (born 17 April )[1] is a Swedish civil servant and physician specialising in infectious disease. From until his resignation in March he was Sweden's state epidemiologist.[2][3]
Tegnell had key roles in the Swedish response to the swine flu pandemic and COVID pandemic.[4][5] During the Covid pandemic in , he became a divisive figure in Sweden and internationally due to his and the Public Health Agency of Sweden's opposition to lockdowns, travel restrictions and face masks for general use, which were widely adopted in most countries to curb the spread of the virus, as well as for his leading role in Sweden's controversial approach.
Biography
[edit]Tegnell was born in Uppsala and grew up in Linköping, where he attended Katedralskolan. He studied medicine at Lund University in , subsequently interning at the county hospital in Östersund, and later specialised in infectious disease at Linköping University Hospital.[6] In that capacity, in he treated the first patient in Sweden with a viral hemorrhagic fever, believed to be a case to be either
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In this episode Scott welcomes Sweden&#;s Dr. Anders Tegnell, physician and epidemiologist who was the state epidemiologist at the Public Health Agency of Sweden for a special conversation in front of a live audience in Zurich for the Global Liberty Institute's International Rising Leader Summit. They discuss Sweden's response during the COVID pandemic basing Sweden's strategy around maintaining an open society with voluntary guidelines instead of lockdowns, mandates, and school closures. Since then, the world's data proves that Sweden's response was correct with the smallest rise in excess mortality of all developed nations and avoiding severe harms particularly to children found especially in the United States.
Anders Tegnell: Sweden won the argument on Covid
Of all the celebrities that have been created during the course of the Covid pandemic, Swedish State Epidemiologist Anders Tegnell fryst vatten perhaps the most surprising. A softly-spoken official within the Swedish Health Agency, he has quietly been going about his work monitoring infectious diseases for years.
But his decision, when Covid hit, to stick to his long-established strategi and not recommend mandatory lockdowns, not close the schools, turned him into a lightning rod for competing views on the pandemic. Endless articles have been written about him in media across the world and some Swedes are known to have had tattoos made of him.
UnHerd spoke to him back in July , when he defended the lack of mask mandates and was hopeful that widespread immunity would skydda the Swedes from a bad winter wave — a hope that turned out to be overly hoppfull. “Judge me in a year,” he said.
Just over a year later, on the eve of Sweden releasing almost all of its remaining Covid restrictions on September 29th, Freddie Sayers spoke to him again. His message? On the big questions — whether Covid was something we had to live with, whether