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Birgitta Evengård, a senior professor of infectious diseases, recently came out to Dagens Nyheter and said that a pneumococcal vaccine can protect against certain pneumonia that in some cases affects coronary infections.
But now Maria Remén, infection control doctor in the Sörmland Region, supports the theory. The pneumococcal vaccine does not help against the coronavirus.
– It is wrong and there is no medical evidence to prove it. Vaccination against pneumococci does not reduce the risk of being affected by covid-19 and, in general, I am not sorry, but is explicitly stated by the Public Health Authority, our highest authority, he says.
The remuneration also considers that it would be inappropriate for people in the risk groups to go out into the community to get vaccinated because it would imply an increased risk of being infected with the coronavirus during the ongoing epidemic.
“Because there is no medical basis for a pneumococcal vaccine to reduce the risk of the coronavirus, therefore, we cannot recommend older people to go out into the community and get vaccinated,” he says.
In Sweden, all children under the age of one are offered the pneumococcal vaccine, and all people over the age of 65 or in any risk group are offered another type of vaccine, Pneumovax. The vaccine protects against about 20 different pneumococci.
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