ANTI-LOCKDOWN GURU ADMITS APPROACH FLAWED

Sweden’s state epidemiologist has said the country should have imposed greater restrictions to bring its coronavirus epidemic under control — the first time he has expressed doubts about his decision not to impose a lockdown. In an interview with state radio broadcaster SR, Anders Tegnell said that, given Sweden’s stubbornly high death rate, he no longer believed that he and the Public

Health Agency had got the balance right.

“If we were hit by the same disease, knowing exactly what we know today, I think we would end up doing something between what Sweden has done and what the rest of the world has done,” he said Wednesday. Sweden’s death rate, at 450 per million inhabitants, is 10 times that of Norway, close to five times that of Denmark.