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In Gothenburg, Rosa Johansson, 99, received the region’s first vaccination shot.
– Raised his hand when asked who wanted the first dose, says Gabriel Holmqvist, press secretary for the Västra Götaland region.
Rosa Johansson lives in the Högsbotorp nursing home, one of four homes in Gothenburg that was the first to leave when the Västra Götaland region began vaccination on Sunday.
– We chose these four based on the fact that it would be easy with logistics. They are located in the same geographical area. It was a purely practical explanation for the fact that it was all four of them, said Babs Edberg, who coordinates covid-19 elder care work at a subsequent press conference.
Logistics plays a role
Several regions and municipalities affirm for SVT that precisely practical and logistical reasons weigh heavily when deciding the order of priority.
This includes adjusting the number of doses to the number of people living in nursing homes. This is the reasoning in the Gotland region, which received 200 doses of vaccine in the first round. Here, the terra nova nursing home was the first to leave.
– For efficient management, we have tried to select homes where the number of individuals who want to be vaccinated together is exactly 200. If possible, we want to avoid having “semi-vaccinated” homes, says the vaccination coordinator for the region, Christine Senter.
In Blekinge and Västnorrland, among others, they reason in the same way and at the same time claim that confirmed cases of disease are another factor that determines the order of precedence.
– It is one of the parameters that is taken into account when prioritizing because you must be healthy when you get vaccinated, says Västernorrland vaccine coordinator Karin Sellgren.
Speed and mode of infection
In the Västerbotten region, which will start vaccination tomorrow, the Dragon senior center and the Teg senior center in Umeå are next in line.
The fact that there were two households in Umeå and not in any other municipality in the region is due to the fact that the vaccine delivered to Västerbotten is in a broken cold chain. This means that you do not have as many days to use the 200 doses that benefit the region and therefore speed became a deciding factor.
In the Norrbotten region, however, priority has been given to the infection situation. Here, the first doses of the vaccine were sent to nursing homes in Boden.
– We have a high proportion of infected in that municipality. People living in various special homes for the elderly in Boden municipality now receive vaccinations, says Vaccine Coordinator Pia Näsvall.
