{"id":51169,"date":"2020-08-21T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T11:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/swedish-disease-expert-under-fire-for-email-revealing-herd-immunity-rationale\/"},"modified":"2020-08-21T14:44:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T11:44:00","slug":"swedish-disease-expert-under-fire-for-email-revealing-herd-immunity-rationale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/swedish-disease-expert-under-fire-for-email-revealing-herd-immunity-rationale\/","title":{"rendered":"#Swedish disease expert under fire for email revealing herd immunity rationale"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Swedish disease expert under fire for email revealing herd immunity rationale<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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August 21, 2020 |<\/span> 7:44am |<\/span> Updated August 21, 2020 | 7:54am<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n Swedish epidemiologist Anders Tegnell<\/span>
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\n Sweden\u2019s top infectious disease expert app<\/a>eared to deliberately chase herd immunity from coronavirus \u2014 saying the death risk to the elderly could be \u201cworth it,\u201d according to newly released emails.<\/p>\n

Anders Tegnell \u2014 Sweden\u2019s equivalent to Dr. Anthony Fauci \u2014 was already under fire for seemingly disastrous responses to the contagion that eschewed almost any lockdowns.<\/p>\n

Now emails obtained by Swedish journalists under freedom of information laws have further fanned the flames \u2014 seemingly contradicting his earlier denials that he deliberately sought a faster spread to get herd immunity despite knowing the risks, according to The Guardian.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne point would be to keep schools open to reach herd immunity faster,\u201d he wrote during one March brainstorming exchange with his Finnish counterpart, Mika Salminen, days after COVID-19 was declared a pandemic.<\/p>\n

He was warned that \u201cthe children are still going to spread the infection to other age groups\u201d and that closing schools could reduce the spread to vulnerable age groups by at least 10 percent, The Guardian said.<\/p>\n

\u201cTen percent might be worth it?\u201d he replied, according to the reports.<\/p>\n

The released emails sparked outrage in the Scandinavian country, Yahoo! News noted \u2014 with other reports also suggesting he had deleted hundreds of emails that were being sought.<\/p>\n

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Despite the emails, Tegnell insists that chasing herd immunity was not the real reason for keeping schools open.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy comment was on a possible effect, not on an expected one, that was part of the assessment of the appropriateness of the measure,\u201d he told Emanuel Karlsten, the journalist who obtained the emails. \u201cKeeping schools open to gain immunity was therefore never relevant.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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