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Big differences in how many have been vaccinated in the regions
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So far, some 80,000 people have been vaccinated against covid-19 in Sweden.
At the same time, some regions choose to save vaccines, despite FHM urging all doses to be used.
– I do not perceive that they have been super clear, says Emma Spak in the municipalities and regions of Sweden.
Vaccination against covid-19 is ongoing around the world, but how fast it is progressing varies from country to country.
Leading the way is Israel, which announced on Friday that more than one million of the country’s nine million people had been vaccinated, and that an estimated 150,000 people could be vaccinated a day.
In Sweden, Gun-Britt Johnsson, 91, was the first to receive a syringe in her arm on December 27.
More than 80,000 have been vaccinated
On Tuesday morning, the Swedish Public Health Agency announced that approximately 80,000 people had been vaccinated against covid-19 in Sweden as of January 10, but at the same time added that information was lacking from various regions and that therefore , there were probably more.
Photo: Claudio Bresciani / TT
Emma Spak, the municipalities and regions of Sweden, believes that the Swedish Public Health Agency has not been clear.
When Aftonbladet asked the regions on Monday how many residents received the first injection, the responses varied.
In the Halland region, for example, only 372 people had been vaccinated so far, while the corresponding figure for the Östergötland region was 4,200.
In some of the other regions it looked like this:
Blekinge region: 1,695 people
Värmland region: just over 900 people
Norrbotten Region: 1,200 people
Västernorrland region: 2.50 people
Sörmland region: 3,898 people
Gävleborg Region: 2,200 people
Örebro region: 3,492 people
Jönköping region: 1,516 people
Chosen to save vaccine doses
According to Emma Spak, head of health and medical care in Sweden’s municipalities and regions, the differences are so great that some regions have chosen to save the vaccine doses for the second round, while others have chosen to use the existing vaccine.
– We have been able to see that some regions choose to save doses to be safe before the second dose is administered after three weeks. There are also delivery plans, but the experience with swine flu is that there may be production problems or something else causing delays in doses. And a delivery is never fully insured until it’s in the freezer.
Spak explains that in the current situation, therefore, it can be misleading to compare the number of vaccinated regions between, when different routes have been chosen.
“It has not been very clear”
However, the Swedish Public Health Agency has once again pointed out that it recommends regions not to keep vaccines, but to use all doses.
– You should definitely use the vaccine you have, there is no reason as it seems today to save vaccines for future use, but everything indicates that we will have deliveries in progress, state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell previously said.
Photo: LOTTE FERNVALL
Tegnell’s call to the regions has been to use all available vaccines.
Despite this, several regions that Aftonbladet was in contact with on Monday have opted to save doses.
Something that may be partly due to ambiguity, according to Emma Spak.
– I do not perceive that FHM has been super clear in the recommendations in this regard. I believe that we need a common strategy between the agency and the regions and a continuous dialogue. Then we can avoid ambiguities.
I need to get the information
He also believes that it is important for the Swedish Public Health Agency to communicate how many people have been vaccinated.
– We need to get that information out as I perceive that there will be many thoughts and speculations in another way. Many want to know how things are going in Sweden and see how we are doing.
Yes, how are we really?
– My opinion is that it works well with vaccines in the regions so far and that it has gone as far as I thought.
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