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– Everything went well, Svein Andersen answered Prime Minister Erna Solberg’s questions about what it was like to get the historic bet, seconds after it was established.
About half an hour later, Andersen has been under observation to see if he has had any side effects.
– So far I have not noticed any reaction after the injection, says Andersen.
Dr Ingvild Glende Svanstrøm explains that the first half hour after a vaccine is given is the most critical.
– This is perhaps the most important phase. The most serious reaction is a severe allergic reaction, and it usually occurs within the first half hour, Svanstrøm says, emphasizing that Andersen will be closely followed in the future.
Andersen recommends that everyone get vaccinated.
– Absolutely. There was no pain associated with it. Nothing more than a regular vaccine, Andersen said.
– It’s a little weird. You almost became a historical figure. It really is a good feeling. Almost as if he was the first to go to the moon, Andersen told reporters after the sting.
I wanted to take the vaccine early
The 67-year-old says he expressed an early desire to get vaccinated and was later asked if he would be the first in Norway to do so.
– I had to agree that I would get the vaccine. It was voluntary. They didn’t push me to the front, no. They encouraged him, but he was voluntary, he says, adding that he never had any doubts that he wanted the vaccine.
It was Nurse Maria Golding who had the honor of putting the historic vaccine on Andersen.
– I think it’s an honorable assignment. Vaccination is something we do a lot, it is something we can do, he says.
– Were you more nervous about this than about other vaccines you have given?
– I don’t think I would have been there if it hadn’t been for a large body of press in front of me.
Solberg: – A day of liberation
An emotional leader of the Oslo city council told NRK in the minutes leading up to the historic moment that it “tingles throughout the body.”
– This is a great great day! This is the beginning of the end, although there is a long time left, the first vaccine has arrived. We will be happy about that, said Raymond Johansen.
Afterwards, Johansen was still happy, but remembered that there is still a long way to go.
– This is a day of joy, but we have difficult months ahead. This is not over, but today we can be happy that the vaccine has been established and that this is underway, he said.
Erna Solberg described the moment as a victory for science.
– At a time when science is being questioned by many, this has proven to be the good work that goes on in vaccine development. It is a victory for the cooperation that we have had between many countries and many pharmaceutical industry, to achieve this, he said.
– It’s a day of liberation. When we have a vaccine, we can get back to everyday life. When we have enough vaccinations, we can remove the restrictions that we still have to have.
Geir Bukholm, director of infection control at the National Institute of Public Health, said in the NRK study before vaccination that we have now reached an important milestone.
– We see the beginning of an end, he said.
The fact that vaccination is already taking place has surprised many professionals.
– Just a few months ago, we thought this would happen in the spring of 2021 at best. So the fact that we can sit here today and put the first vaccine, it’s pretty good, Bukholm said.
– It means a lot to be able to visit the nursing home
Health Deputy Director Espen Nakstad also emphasizes that we are now taking the first step out of the pandemic.
– It means a lot to them in nursing homes that they can eventually receive visits again and live more normally with visitors, Nakstad tells NRK.
The Prime Minister, who monitored the vaccination via video link, also emphasized that nursing homes can begin to open for more visits when the other doses are in place.
Andersen is happy about that.
– You have a lot to say that I can get a visit. Those who are going to visit do not have to plan many days in advance, he said after the vaccination.
Nakstad believes that many people will stop using the vaccines when they are finally offered.
– Common side effects have been reported, is that the immune system works. It is a completely natural reaction to a vaccine. The rarer side effects are being monitored, but not many side effects have been reported for these vaccines to date. But you have to keep up, of course, says Nakstad.
Tomorrow the routine vaccination begins, and in the next few days, 5,000 elderly people will receive the vaccine.
The vaccine, developed by Pfizer and Biontech, will now be distributed to seven municipalities in the east.
In the first instance, it is the residents of nursing homes who should be vaccinated. In addition to Oslo, Stange, Hamar, Ringsaker, Sarpsborg, Fredrikstad and Hvaler receive doses of vaccine from the first delivery. They start the vaccination on Monday.
Svein Andersen (67) on his way to receive the historic vaccine.
Photo: Fredrik Hagen / NTB
Europe on the go
The first 10,000 doses of vaccine arrived in Norway on December 26 and are distributed to about 5,000 people, who will receive one dose now and one dose in three weeks, reports the Ministry of Health and Health Services.
Vaccination is also taking place in other parts of Europe. The first vaccine sticks were distributed on Sunday morning to the elderly, health workers and politicians, who wanted to assure the population that vaccination is safe.
In Sweden, the first dose was set at 8 a.m. on Sunday. Gun-Britt Johansson, 91, of the Boken nursing home, was first in line.
In Denmark, Leif Hessielberg, 79, from a nursing home east of Odense, was the first to leave.
