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In Berlevåg municipality, there are so far seven people who have been vaccinated against the coronavirus, and the first to be vaccinated was the municipal chief doctor, Jakob Thorkildsen (32).
This goes against the guidelines of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (FHI), which state that vaccines must go to residents of nursing homes during the first week. Only in the second week can health personnel support themselves, writes iFinnmark, who was the first to mention the case.
City Chief Physician Thorkildsen tells Dagbladet that he knew when he was vaccinated.
– Of course, we were aware that this was against the guidelines, but we considered it a very proportionate public health measure. As I know FHI, they just want to shit on this, but if it leads to an argument, I am completely open to accepting it, the municipal chief tells Dagbladet.
He adds that the county governor has already reported the case to FHI, as a matter of course.
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Worried
– Why did you get the first vaccine?
– The background is that in the vaccination team in the municipality we have experienced that the local population has expressed skepticism about the vaccine, including concerns related to side effects. Therefore, we agreed that one of us could take the initiative.
– As a kind of good example?
– Yes, that is correct.
Thorkildsen took the first vaccine on Wednesday of this week. In addition, six nursing home residents were vaccinated.
– The first delivery we received consisted of a vial, from which we managed to squeeze seven doses – six of them were for nursing home residents and one was for the municipal superior in a leather hat, says Thorkildsen.
PATIENT CONTACT: -I am within the priority group of health workers with contact with patients and perhaps I have what can be called a critical position, so it was not entirely outside the regulations, says the municipal chief who received the first vaccine in the municipality.
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Comments
– Has skepticism disappeared among Berlevåg residents now that you’ve had the vaccine?
– Impossible to say. But I have received many positive comments from local residents here.
– Does anyone think it was wrong to get ahead of the queue?
– Not like I have with me.
– Do you think that an older person in the risk group now does not receive their vaccine because you have “taken” it?
– In.
No infection
In Berlevåg, no corona cases have been detected since the pandemic began.
-We are currently a municipality with zero registered infections, but it will eventually arrive, if it has not already been here, says the municipal chief.
In all, just over 20 nursing home residents have vaccines first priority in the municipality.
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Christian position
The 32-year-old municipal superior does not belong to any risk group and describes himself as “top, top, healthy.”
– But it must be said that I am within the priority group of health workers with contact with the patient and probably have what can be called a critical position, so it was not completely outside the regulations, he says and continues:
– Although it has not yet been tested, I also hope that the vaccine may have an infection-preventing effect in the patients I treat.
– Did you want the vaccine yourself?
– I had my skepticism before the new year, but that was before I learned more about the technology that was the basis and the process behind the approval. Then I felt safe, says the municipal superintendent.
He continues:
– This was mainly intended as a joy in the local newspapers here in Berlevåg. It was never intended to be anything bigger than that. I care about my patients, and here in Finnmark there are many elderly and infirm, and so my colleagues and I feel a greater responsibility for them to feel included in the drowning of knowledge.
Trust
– And does it work better if you show that you get the vaccine yourself, rather than informing patients that it is safe to take?
– People do not necessarily make decisions based only on knowledge and information, but also on emotions. We are also, in a sense, a bit related to sheep, responds the municipal superior.
He says he hopes others in the same situation will consider vaccinating himself first.
– I think it is especially in small communities like Berlevåg where the local population will be able to respond positively, he says.
