instead prematurely referred to palliative or hospice care, and that this has resulted in unnecessary deaths. politicians and health care workers in sweden have also debated whether elder care homes have been too reluctant to transfer older patients to higher levels of care for fear of overwhelming the hospital system, and whether restrictions on scope of practice should have been relaxed to allow more patients in care homes to receive oxygen therapy without being transferred to hospital. a march 2022 review published in humanities and social sciences communications criticized the government's response, saying that it led to more deaths from covid-19 in sweden than in its neighbouring nordic countries. public opinion according to surveys carried out in late march and early april 2020, three out of four swedes (71–76%) trusted the public health agency, and nearly half of the people surveyed (47%) said they had 'very high trust' in the agency. a majority said they trusted the government, and 85% said they trusted the swedish health-care system. a march 2020 survey reported that more than half (53%) of the swedish population had trust in the state epidemiologist, anders tegnell, a higher share than for any of the current leaders of the swedish political parties. the share of respondents who said that they didn't trust tegnell was 18%. in an april survey carried out by dn/ipsos, the share who said they trusted tegnell had increased to 69%, while the number who said they didn't trust their state epidemiologist had decreased to 11%. in june 2020, the same research institute novus reported a decrease in trust for the governments response from 63% in april to 45% in june with lower support also for the public health agency to 65%.