If the vaccine cannot reach weak citizens, weak citizens must get the vaccine. This is what Minister of Health Magnus Heunicke (S) promises as a follow-up to a debate on how to secure vaccines for everyone in vaccine group 2.
So far, some people in vaccine group 2 have been pulled out of the vaccine queue. The group includes people over the age of 65 who receive personal care and practical help in their own home. They have not been able to get vaccinated themselves, and they have not wanted to ship the vaccines to them.
Different vaccines need to be stored at different temperatures. There are fears that they will lose power during transport.
This week, a plan will be drawn up for how people in the initiated target groups who have not yet been vaccinated can be vaccinated.
– It also includes people in target group 2, who can be very difficult to transport to a vaccination site, says Magnus Heunicke in a written comment.
The goal is again to look at the different vaccines to see if one or more of them can be shipped without compromising the effect.
– If it still proves impossible to vaccinate those who are unable to transport themselves in their own homes, these people will be transported to the vaccination site.
– This means that everyone in the target group who wants a vaccine will be vaccinated, either in their own home or at a vaccination site, writes Heunicke.
The comment comes as a follow-up to an article in Jyllands-Posten that Norway and Sweden have chosen to transport the vaccine to the weak.
Here, municipalities and regions move out with vaccines from Pfizer / BioNTech. This vaccinates vulnerable citizens in their own homes.
As long as the transport takes place carefully, the Norwegian and Swedish health authorities see no problems in carrying out the vaccination at people’s homes.
– The regions in Sweden vaccinate people over the age of 65 at home and cannot come to the health service themselves, with Pfizer’s vaccine, it sounds from SKR, which represents all Swedish municipalities and regions.
The Norwegian National Board of Health, the National Institute of Public Health, informs Jyllands-Posten that many of Norway’s 356 municipalities drive out to the citizens and vaccinate them with Pfizer / BioNTech’s vaccine in their own homes.
Chief physician Preben Aavitsland from the Norwegian board says that you just have to be careful and not shake the vaccine along the way.