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W. Aaron Vandiver's avatar

Sweden's public health agency is legally protected from political influence to a much greater degree than the CDC, which partly explains Sweden's success.

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MS's avatar

CDC et.al. needs to be free of big pharma's influence more than free from the administration's influence. In our case BP bought gov't health which in turn gaslighted the previous administration and coopted the current one... JMO of course.

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Anonymous's avatar

Can you elaborate

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W. Aaron Vandiver's avatar

The Swedish constitution guarantees that public agencies are independent of the influence of the central government, protecting the agencies from political meddling. https://voxeu.org/article/sweden-s-constitution-decides-its-exceptional-covid-19-policy

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Jim's avatar

You are correct. There were interviews with Tegnell where journalists tried to box him in a corner politically and he didn't let them. In my view, he always took the position that he might be wrong.

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