Bergström believes that it is clear that the willingness to vaccinate in the country is lower when the Public Health Agency does not issue a general recommendation.
But David Edenvik, bitr.
infection control doctor in Region Jönköping County, goes more along the lines of the Public Health Agency.
- If you want to come out with a clear recommendation, you have to have quite a lot on your feet because this is needed, and so far we don't have much data that it is actually needed in these groups.
In the clip, infectious disease doctor David Edenvik gives advice on how to think about the fourth vaccine dose against covid-19.
Vaccinations are underway in the county
In Jönköping County, the vaccinations are rolling with the fourth dose.
Currently, around 35,000 people, or around 40 percent, of those over 65 have received the autumn dose.
- Then there are approximately 6,000 people under the age of 65 who have taken their fourth dose, we cannot distinguish in our statistics whether they belong to a risk group or not, explains David Edenvik.
According to him, there are plenty of vaccines available and the doses that are now given are the updated vaccine that should work better against the omicron variant of the coronavirus.
Right now, 26 patients with covid-19 are being cared for in hospitals in the county, one of these is being cared for in ICU.