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PFIZER: If approved by the EU, the vaccine can be shipped to Norway during the New Year in specially manufactured freezer boxes. It takes a lot of planning. Photo: DADO RUVIC / X02714
Many scenarios need to be devised to avoid wasting the Pfizer vaccine. Therefore, FHI has sent a very detailed vaccine plan to the municipalities.
A lot should be true when setting the first doses of the vaccine, especially with the Pfizer vaccine, which has a five-day shelf life after it comes out of the freezers.
Therefore, FHI has produced a separate guide for the Pfizer vaccine in which they describe in detail what municipalities should plan for.
Municipalities must have this plan ready by December 18.
The Pfizer vaccine is at the forefront of the race to be approved in the EU and Norway. It’s expected to be available in Norway before the New Year, depending on whether the EU approves it on December 21.
This date was originally December 29, but was sped up on Tuesday.
Those vaccinated are protected for about seven days after the second dose, writes FHI in the guide.
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Little time in
The number of doses is calculated based on the number of people in the groups who will receive the vaccine. In the first instance, there are residents of nursing homes and elderly people older than 85 years (see data table below)
The municipalities will receive a minimum of 5 days from the notification of the number of doses distributed to the municipality and until the delivery of these.
They will get the vaccine first:
- Residents in nursing homes and nursing homes
- Elderly people over 85 years old
- Elderly over 75 years
- Elderly over 65
- People ages 18 to 64 with one or more underlying conditions.
NIPH is already asking municipalities to begin work on identifying nursing home patients who are eligible for vaccination.
You can read below how FHI believes municipalities should organize the race in light of the short shelf life of the Pfizer vaccine:
Notify and plan who is going to be vaccinated
The vaccination time is set for all who must be vaccinated before the vaccine reaches the municipality.
Checklists should be established prior to vaccination to ensure that:
- Those who attend vaccinations are in a position to be vaccinated.
- You do not have an ongoing infection,
- Not quarantined
- Not yet vaccinated elsewhere
- It has no allergies and contraindications for vaccination.
Make spare lists
Municipalities must also have a reserve list of inhabitants that is available for vaccination if someone does not show up. Individuals on the reserve list should, as far as possible, also adhere to the central guidelines on prioritizing vaccination groups.
A deviation from the order of priority may be necessary to avoid wasting doses, writes FHI.
Vaccines and vaccination sites
Good organization of the individual vaccination site is required. In most municipalities, this will mean a centralized solution with one or more locations where vaccination takes place. It could be, for example, a doctor’s office or a large place like a sports hall.
The NIPH asks municipalities to plan evening and weekend vaccinations to make full use of the vaccines within the four to five days they have available.
During mass vaccination, for example in a gym, FHI is very specific about how they visualize it:
- For example, you can have a team that dilutes and prepares vaccines, a team that vaccinates, and a team that registers in the SYSVAK digital system, they write.
