– You must act before you think it is necessary. Waiting For you, for it is necessary, it will be too late.
that was the gist of it is supposedly from the director of the State Serum Institute, Kåre Mølbak, in the run-up to the comprehensive closure of the society to combat coronavirus.
the Words are said, before the prime minister Mette Frederiksen (S) press conference 11. march, but referenced now by the director himself in an interview with Politiken.
I said: What needs to be done, is up to you decision-makers. I’m not the decision maker in this country, but what you need to do, to do early.
– Otherwise you can stand in a situation like in Italy, says Kåre Mølbak in the day.
the Opinion of the director is a new input to the question of which bodies advised the government on the great shutdown.
At the press conference 11. in march the prime minister said that it was ’the authorities ‘recommendation’, that ‘all unnecessary activity’ is closed down.
Since, however, it has not been possible to know exactly which authorities the government has listened to before the decision was made.
In the meantime it becomes more and more clear who is not recommended to close, for example, schools.
One of them is the european centre for disease prevention and control (ecdc), the ECDC, could Ekstra Bladet tell Sunday.
Only when the member states had tried other measures to limit the spread of infection, could the closure of schools and day care centers to be considered, says the ECDC.
– the ECDC have said all the time, that the national authorities must first consider to reduce the chances of spread of infection in schools through other action than to close the schools, says in a written reply to Ekstra Bladet.
at Home there was support for the measures taken by the national board of Health, has several media outlets uncovered.
the Agency did not believe that the closure of schools and banning large gatherings was needed.
today – barely three months later – explains Kåre Mølbak, that the two Danish health authorities did not agree on this point.
– the Board has probably held a bit more again, than what I have broken me. The government should of course get all the tools for quick action, he says to Politiken, referring to that there is a difference between being authority and decision maker.
Mette Frederiksen to Tuesday in the consultation of the authorities who advised her about the extensive decommissioning.
