Anders Tegnell 10/28: "Experiences in Europe are not that great…countries with huge increase in cases have a legal obligation to wear face masks…it's quite clear masks are not going to be the silver bullet, it is dangerous to believe you can change so much by using face masks"

On schools: "We know that having children in school is very important to their health, short term and long term…we can see from other countries that closed schools that children are suffering…during spring we saw almost no outbreaks in schools…teacher to teacher in most cases"

On vaccines: "We are waiting on vaccines that we don't know very much about so far…I think safety issues can be handled, but we need to realize the efficacy and the long-term efficacy of these vaccines we don't know too much about...I am skeptical about [lockdown until vaccine]"