Can’t do a default import in Angular 9

I changed tsconfig.json by adding this properties

"esModuleInterop": true, "allowSyntheticDefaultImports": true,

in order to be able to import a npm package import * as ms from "ms";

But I still get this error

This module is declared with using 'export =', and can only be used with a default import when using the 'allowSyntheticDefaultImports' flag.

What am I missing?

Update:

If I change with import ms from "ms", then it works fine with the compiler but not with VSCode linter and the error is

 can only be default-imported using the 'allowSyntheticDefaultImports' flagts(1259)
index.d.ts(25, 1): This module is declared with using 'export =', and can only be used with a default import when using the 'allowSyntheticDefaultImports' flag.

As I said now is working but VSCode have a problem.

Answer

The problem is how the package declared the export, you can still import using the default import:

import ms from "ms";