Lena Einhorn has one of those resumes that's almost hard to believe.

She's a physician, but she's also a bench scientist.

The thing is, she didn't want to stay behind a bench.

My thesis was in virology and tumor biology, but I've been working as a filmmaker and author for the last decades.

Lena lived in the U.S. for a while. She made films for Lifetime Television.

Now she lives in Sweden, where she's won the Swedish National Book Award.

But she still has that scientific habit of asking questions, a lot of questions.

And since the coronavirus pandemic started up, she hasn't been able to stop asking.

When the epidemic in Wuhan started, I was following it, you know, and I noticed that nothing was happening in Sweden.

So I started making contact with the state epidemiologist of Sweden, asking him, you know, what's going on?

You know, they're warning that there would be a worldwide pandemic

and you have to prepare.

You know, I was reading an Lancet article.

What did they say to you?

So he said, well, there are a lot of, you know,

a lot of projections from very loose data.

You know, we shall see what happens.

That's what he answered.

It was an email.

This was back in February, about a month before the United States would shut itself down.

Lena thought our own government should be doing more earlier.

The state epidemiologist disagreed.

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