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While in some places in western Sweden it is difficult to have time to sample for COVID-19, others consciously choose not to get tested. This means that infection control generates a “large number of blackouts” in the statistics.
Now, assistant infection control physician Peter Nolskog is sounding the alarm about a phenomenon on the same track.
– Previously, people wanted to know if they had covid. Now they are almost beginning to wonder if it’s worth knowing, because there will be so many consequences, he says.
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Risk of home quarantine
Reading the Swedish Public Health Agency’s recommendations for those who have not been screened, some see an opportunity to return to school or work more quickly. This is compared to waiting for a test response and getting a result to identify with, according to Peter Nolskog.
Above all, you have heard that this interpretation has been done for schoolchildren in western Sweden, but also for individual adults. At the same time, however, one foundation in today’s recommendations is that everyone from preschool onward should be tested if symptoms don’t go away within a day.
– I saw the slip that you started refraining from taking samples, when you were going to take a sample, and then you were able to return earlier. Now, with home quarantine, that household members must be at home, it will be another thing to avoid getting tested. Because if you are positive, your spouse, partner, partner must be at home.
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Facts: Recommendations That Apply
The one who has short term symptomsLike waking up lazy, and feeling healthy the next day, they don’t need to prove themselves. However, you must stay home for two more days in addition to the day with symptoms.
If the symptoms do not go away, you should contact your health center to obtain a sample. Pending tests and test results you should stay home and avoid close contact with other people.
TO positive test result You must be home for at least seven days from the day you had symptoms, two of which felt fine and did not have a fever. Since October 21, the family members of an infected person are also subject to rules.
TO negative test result You can return to work or school when you feel healthy, alert, and fever-free.
Source: Swedish Public Health Agency
Review the recommendations
However, the interpretation that you can refrain from sampling if you have symptoms is incorrect. That’s the opinion of Karin Tegmark Wisell, head of department at the Swedish Public Health Agency.
– It is not intended to be interpreted in that way. We will review based on that consequence, if we need to clarify more, she says and continues:
– First of all, it is the tests that apply, so only when you do not have the opportunity to perform the tests can you turn to the other recommendations. In principle, only for children of preschool age we believe that tests should not be trusted.
You want to find the chains of infection
For preschoolers in particular, the test is not recommended as it is seen as being unpleasant for them. Basically, this is the reason why the recommendation is maintained for those who do not test themselves, as well as for some other exceptional cases.
– First of all, we recommend sampling for schoolchildren from preschool onwards. If you don’t have a chance to get tested, you can resort to (symptom-free home advice) 48 hours. But the intention is not to see what is the biggest advantage for you, but we want you to test it on a large scale.
– We want to know the spread of the infection in this group, so that we can find all the chains of infection, as in adults. And also that he could go back to school even sooner if he takes the test.
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Peter Nolskog, Assistant Infection Control Physician at Västra Götaland. Photo: Catharina Fyrberg
Adults and children must prove themselves
Therefore, the Swedish Public Health Agency will review the wording of the website. His call, as Smittskydd Västra Götalands, is for children from preschool age onwards to be evaluated.
Peter Nolskog, an assistant infection control physician, wants more people to follow that advice, rather than interpret others.
– There was a tendency to want to see this as a kind of free ticket, to avoid sampling and to be able to return faster, he says.
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