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* This year, Swedish life expectancy is set to fall by 0.3 years for women and 0.5 years for men. * This would be the biggest drop in life expectancy in Sweden since 1944. * The expected drop is largely down to the COVID-19 pandemic, Statistics Sweden said. The country is in the midst of a second wave, and cases are soaring. * "Life expectancy has increased steadily in Sweden between 1900 and 2019," the agency said. "The fact that it is sinking stands out." * On November 16, Sweden's prime minister announced stricter coronavirus measures after the country admitted...

Sweden’s top infectious disease expert has resisted recommending face masks for the general population — arguing it’s “very dangerous” if people believe the coverings alone will stop the spread of the coronavirus. Anders Tegnell, chief epidemiologist at Sweden’s Public Health Agency, has repeatedly expressed skepticism that face masks will control virus outbreaks, the Financial Times reported. “It is very dangerous to believe face masks would change the game when it comes to COVID-19,” said Tengell, who is considered the country’s equivalent of Dr. Anthony Fauci from the White House COVID-19 task force. He noted that countries with widespread mask compliance,...

(Video at the link) UnHerd 33.1K subscribers That was one of the more extraordinary interviews we have done here at UnHerd. Professor Johan Giesecke, one of the world’s most senior epidemiologists, advisor to the Swedish Government (he hired Anders Tegnell who is currently directing Swedish strategy), the first Chief Scientist of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, and an advisor to the director general of the WHO, lays out with typically Swedish bluntness why he thinks: - UK policy on lockdown and other European countries are not evidence-based- The correct policy is to protect the old and the...