On Tuesday, a debate has flared up after DN published a debate article on the Public Health Authority's work on the corona pandemic.
Lena Einhorn is a PhD in virology and believes that the Public Health Authority has not acted properly. The main principle of "Staying at home if you are sick" is a life-threatening strategy, she says in tonight's News.
- I am critical that you did not take height from the beginning. You completely ignore the studies that show asymptomatic infection, says Lena Einhorn in Aktuellt.
According to the studies used by the public health authority, it is found that 6-8 percent are asymptomatic infected.
- He uses the study that Anders Tegnell refers to in the wrong way. Exactly the same material has been used in another study using other methods, with 48 percent showing pre-symptomatic infection, says Lena Einhorn.
Anders Tegnell points out that the WHO also believes that the majority of the spread is from people with symptoms.
- Most of it speaks for it. In virtually all other infectious diseases we know that this is so. But there can certainly be some spread from those who do not show as much symptoms, he says.
Opposite view- If you compare information at WHO, CDC, ECDS with the Public Health Authority, it is a diametrically opposite view of asymptomatic dissemination. It's a mileage difference. There is a study that looks at 468 cases and how they got infected. There is overwhelming data that there is asymptomatic infection, says Lena Einhorn.
Has the Public Health Authority underestimated asymptomatic infection?
- No, we do not have that. In our strategy, this does not matter so much, we have never said that we should stop all infection. We work to remove as much infection as possible. What is quite clear is that if we stop the symptomatic cases, then the pandemic will stop altogether, says Anders Tegnell.
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State epidemiologist Anders Tegnell responded to criticism from Lena Einhorn, co. dr. Virology. Photo: SVT