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Almost all covid-infected people who come into contact with the infection markers have already tracked the infection. Infection tracker Viktor Hamberg believes that it shows that criticism of the Swedish model for tracking COVID-19 infections, which means that infected people must take great personal responsibility, is not justified.
Traces of infection can sometimes detect outbreaks of covid infection when multiple infected people independently tell themselves that they have gotten sick since they’ve been to a restaurant, for example.
In recent weeks, the Swedish model for infection tracking has been criticized, and Germany, where the responsibility for infection tracking lies with medical care, has been cited as a good example.
But nurse Viktor Hamberg, who works with infection tracking at Primary Care Skåne online, questions the criticism.
– We think it’s a bit unjustified. 95 percent of those we call have already tracked down their infections when they have contacted their workplace and the people they have been in contact with. We think it would take longer if you had to wait for healthcare services to contact them. This is a faster process, he says.
He believes that infection tracking would be delayed and extremely resource intensive if the healthcare system took over all infection tracking for COVID-19.
– I don’t know how many people it would take to implement it, says Viktor Hamberg.
Current infection trackers do not check if all infected people are tracking infections.
– We have raised the issue, but no decision has been made on it.
In normal cases, he works with infection tracking at the youth clinic, which has now also been commissioned to track covid-19. Infection tracking begins when infection trackers receive information about people who have tested positive.
– They end up on a list with us and then we pass trackers of them one by one. We call them and most people answer, then we have a form that we follow where we ask questions about where and when they have gotten sick and who they have been in contact with. We also ask them if they have been away from home and where they work, says Viktor Hamberg.
The answers are the backbone of that mapping of who infected the person in question and who may have infected in turn.
Viktor Hamberg says that the tracing of COVID-19 infection and sexually transmitted diseases are different.
– In the case of a sexual infection, it is a clearer and more direct contact and then it is easier to decide who to contact. When it comes to covid, it can be more uncertain. For example, there may be multiple colleagues in a workplace who may have infected the person, says Viktor Hamberg.
The difference is also that, in the case of sexually transmitted diseases, it is the health system that fully monitors the infection.
Traces of infection can sometimes detect outbreaks of covid infection when multiple infected people independently tell themselves that they have become ill since they have been to a restaurant, workplace, gym, or on vacation in a certain country. That information goes directly to infection control units.
– This makes it easier for infection control to map cluster infections, says Viktor Hamberg.
