“Pretty much every country is struggling with this,”
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Anders Tegnell
Nils Anders Tegnell is a Swedish civil servant and physician specialising in infectious disease. From 2013 until his resignation in March 2022 he was Sweden's state epidemiologist.
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science · Swedish physician and civil servant · physician · civil servant · epidemiologist · also Anders Tegnell, Nils Anders Tegnell, A. Tegnell, A Tegnell, Tegnell, Tegnell N
Born 17 April 1956 · Q86459400
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2026· 3 entries
“good to know exactly what to shut down to curb the spread of infection better”
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“the basic strategy has worked well. I do not see what we would have done completely differently … Based on the knowledge we had then, we feel we made the appropriate decisions.”
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2021· 1 entry
“s approach. Analysts found that though Sweden”
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2020· 6 entries
Irish Sun: Sweden to shut schools for over-16s until January after Anders Tegnell previously warned ‘it’d be disastrous’
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The Financial Times: Anders Tegnell and the Swedish Covid experiment | Free to read
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Couriermail: Sweden’s Anders Tegnell slams WHO coronavirus decision as ‘total mistake’
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dn.se: Anders Tegnell: There are things we could have done better
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Portraying his stance on important issues for the Swedish society and youth
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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
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2013· 1 entry
Career landmark: Statsepidemiolog (2013–2022).
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2003· 1 entry
And a MSc in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in 2004
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1990· 1 entry
Treated the first patient in Sweden with a viral hemorrhagic fever, believed to be a case to be either the Ebola or the Marburg virus disease
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1985· 1 entry
Subsequently interning at the county hospital in Östersund, and later specialised in infectious disease at Linköping University Hospital
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1956· 1 entry
Born 1956-04-17.
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