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Norway can be opened when hospitals are no longer at risk of congestion. That’s what Geir Bukholm, director of infection control at the National Institute of Public Health (NIPH), says.
– We do not believe we will be there until we have vaccinated until we are 45 years old. Preliminary estimates show that we have then vaccinated such a large proportion of the population that the risk of us overloading the health service is small, says Morgenbladet’s director of infection control.
FHI estimated earlier this week that most people over the age of 65 would be vaccinated by mid-May, but that was before the news that Norway receives up to a million fewer doses of AstraZeneca vaccine and before he knew that the Norwegian authorities would stop doing it. vaccinate with the AstraZeneca vaccine until Danish reports of possible life-threatening side effects are investigated.
Spectacular new order for vaccines
Danish 50 year limit
According to Bukholm, there are several examples of healthy people under 65 who end up in hospital.
– We see a number of people in the age group of 45 to 65 years, where the health service has not found that they have a special predisposition for serious diseases, but where some of them will still be able to do a course where they finish. in hospital and need intensive treatment, says Bukholm.
It emerged on Thursday that there is a broad political agreement in Denmark to remove all coronary restrictions and reopen society as soon as all Danes over 50 have been vaccinated. It was affirmed in a debate with the party leader on Danish television 2 on the occasion of the first anniversary of the country’s closure.
Fear that the rumor will be affected
Insecure
FHI does not have clear estimates of when otherwise healthy Norwegians aged 45-64 will have been vaccinated. The vaccine overview on the FHI website indicates that it will take place sometime after July. This summary will be updated on Friday, warns FHI.
In this country there are about 1.1 million inhabitants in the age group of 45 to 64 years.
