How ice cool scientist saved Sweden from coronavirus without lockdown - and now he's a national hero
WHEN the rest of the world blinked as coronavirus took hold, ice-cool Swede Anders Tegnell refused to lock down his nation.’s death count spiralled last spring at one of the highest global rates, this once faceless scientist was accused of creating a “pariah state”.Scientist Anders Tegnell refused to lock down Sweden in the face of coronavirusYet when I met Tegnell, 64, in the capital Stockholm he was being lauded as if he was the fifth member of Abba.
A Swedish rapper has immortalised him in song and the epidemiologist has a Facebook fan club of 33,000 members. In pubs, joy of joys, you can sit at the bar and order a beer, as long as you remain socially distanced. Junior doctor Sebastian Rushworth, 37, tells me he hasn’t seen a Covid patient on his emergency ward in two months.
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