Västernorrland explains its low vaccination rate of children by saying that they have been left behind in favor of other groups.

A third dose in the older part of the population has instead been prioritized.

According to researcher Emma Frans, the low vaccination rate in children in Sweden is partly due to the fact that vaccines were offered to the group late.

Even by Nordic standards.

Denmark started vaccinating young people much earlier.

- It is a difficult comparison to make when different countries have started vaccinating children at such different times.

In Denmark, they started much earlier.

And already in September this year, there was a vaccination rate in children of almost 60 percent there, she says.

See Emma Frans tell more about the resistance to vaccines among children and their parents.