Statsepidemiolog Anders Tegnell säger att resonemanget om flockimmunitet ”delvis” stämmer, men att det inte är myndighetens strategi. – Vårt huvudsyfte nu är at

Statsepidemiolog Anders Tegnell säger att resonemanget om flockimmunitet ”delvis” stämmer, men att det inte är myndighetens strategi. – Vårt huvudsyfte nu är att få smittspridningen att gå så långsamt som möjligt. ...which translates to... State epidemiologist Anders Tegnell says the reasoning around herd immunity is partly correct but that it is not the organisation's strategy - our main goal now is to get the infection to spread as slow as possible ...but the Swedish government is not actually doing much to limit the spread of the disease other than telling people who show symptoms to stay at home. By now it has mostly been proven that infected people spread the infection for a few days before they show symptoms and the fact that children can be and often seem to be asymptomatic carriers the spread will be rapid and result in a large number of people in need of medical care. The Swedish health care system was already overloaded before the pandemic so it will not be able to handle a large number of patients in need of critical care. The same scenario is now playing out in Italy so this should not come as a surprise.