[username90]

Tegnell predicted that though, actually he thought it would be much higher, between 8k and 20k. The numbers we are seeing now are much better than he initially thought.

> Uppskattningen att mellan 8 000 och 20 000 svenskar kan komma att dö av coronaviruset är inte helt orimlig.

https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/tegnell-om-dodstalen-har-sa...

[imartin2k]

No, that said someone else, he just commented on it and basically said it could become true. It wasn't his own prediction.

A few days later, in an interview he said that the country's elevated death toll "really came as a surprise to us." https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-sweden-lockdown-...