So, here is what I took from Anders Tegnell's interview with the @gmfus today: 1- Tegnell says that the number of cases in Stockholm is now slowing down, he thinks they might have reached the peak and now going down in numbers.

2- He is happy with the system in Sweden where if people feel sick, they stay home. He also thinks people acted responsibly, for example in Stockholm the traffic was 10% of what it would normally be during the Easter holiday. He believes that people did stay home.

3- Ski resorts closed voluntarily, he said. Restaurants and bars also acted responsibly, without strong measurements or strict restrictions. It was all done on a voluntary basis, with individual responsibility being the key factor.

4- He is happy with the approval rate coming from the citizens, as surveys show. 25% are not approving: 20% think more should be done about the economy and 5% think more should be done on public health. ICUs also doubled beds in Stockholm. Whatever could be delayed was delayed.

5- Early on in the interview Tegnell said they failed to protect elderly homes. Elderly homes in Sweden are apparently places where only very sick people go, and the average life in an elderly home is statistically 6 months. The elderly there often have chronic diseases and

they are vulnerable. Tegnell says they are doing an investigation but feedback from the people working there shows: a- hygiene problems, b- language problems (lack of communication, not enough information). I was particularly curious about this, but not much was asked about it.

What were these communication problems, more specifically? Tegnell previously said that there were a lot of Somalians, Iraqis and Syrians who died due to this pandemic. How are these two related?

The majority of the people who died were living in elderly homes. This is why Tegnell doesn't necessarily accept that this is a policy failure. It seems that he thinks the failure is because of the failure in elderly homes. For instance, he says in Norway people who got sick were

younger. But in Sweden, as the virus spread in the elderly homes, the death rate increased. Tegnell also accepted that they had limited capacity for testing in the first few weeks unlike their neighbors. Now they test more (22.000 last week) and they prioritise risk groups.

6- Another important clarification he made was about herd immunity. Tegnell says this is not a policy but a status all states want to achieve. Sweden wants he least burden on the healthcare system, so as few people as possible to get infected at the same time.

7- About schooling, Tegnell says school is important for children and childhood, and closing schools mean parents need to stay home. This is 20% of the workforce in the health service, which seems something Sweden could not afford. He also accepts that teachers were concerned,

but says they are not sure if these concerns were valid or not. There is much to say on this as well. They could have acted quicker, early March when the virus first became an issue in Sweden. They could provide care for those who were absolutely needed in the workforce.

As far as I am aware, Lunds Kommun is getting prepared for this. In any case, Tegnell says they keep their options open, in case they need to apply different measures in the near future. He also said things will probably calm down in Stockholm now, but they are "very concerned"

about other parts of Sweden. Well, this became a very long thread, and Tegnell did talk about several other issues including WHO, geographical differences between different countries, vaccination, immunity, and antibodies.

From what I can say, Denmark and Norway did much better than Sweden. They applied stronger measures, they kept their death numbers way lower compared to Sweden, they also protected their citizens and business (like Sweden), and they are now looking for ways to gradually open up.

End of thread.