Swedish flags fly from a tourist souvenir shop in Gamla Stan in Stockholm. (Photographer: Mikael Sjoberg/Bloomberg)
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- On May 8, Swedish state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell gave an interview via Zoom from a parked car. The hot pink cord of the earbuds plugged into his phone flapped distractingly in the foreground. Before this year, it would’ve been hard to scare up 10 journalists to listen to him or any other epidemiologist, but Tegnell drew 450 reporters and other curious people from 60 countries. An additional 10,000 hav...