Sweden’s Chief Epidemiologist Gives Evidence To UK Covid Inquiry

A statement by Sweden’s state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell, who advised his government on measures to take other than lockdowns, has been found on the UK Covid’s Inquiry’s website in a collection of 700 documents. The doctor, who resigned from his post in 2022, said that excess deaths throughout the epidemic were “considerably higher” in the UK than in Sweden—the only country in Europe and one of only a handful in the world not to implement any form of lockdown during the COVID-19 era. “Death rates are higher in Sweden than our Nordic neighbours but lower than the UK. Exact data can be taken from a number of sources, as I am sure you are aware. Excess mortality differs slightly depending on the method but Sweden is at the same level as the Nordic countries and sometimes lower. UK has a considerably higher excess mortality.”...