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Tell us: Have you booked a Covid-19 vaccine in Sweden?

With more and more regions starting the fourth and final phase of vaccinations – and at the same time, several of The Local's readers reporting difficulties with the booking process – we want to hear from you.

Published: 11 May 2021 16:56 CEST
Tell us: Have you booked a Covid-19 vaccine in Sweden?
Covid-19 vaccinations underway in Örnsköldsvik. Photo: Erik Mårtensson/TT

We are also interested to hear from you if you chose to travel to your home country or elsewhere overseas in order to get the vaccine.

Please tell us how you found both the booking process and the actual vaccination if you’ve had it, and whether it was simple to get information in languages other than Swedish. We will use the responses both as part of an article, and to inform our future reporting.

As always in our surveys, we will not publish your name without your permission. 

The Local exists to help Sweden’s foreign residents navigate life here, and to raise your voices. 

During the pandemic, we have made an extra effort to raise your voices on The Local, for example by asking for your opinions on the Swedish response to the pandemic (we did this three times in 2020 in April, in June, and in December)

We have also written about specific situations and challenges facing groups of readers, including people belonging to risk groups, those who moved to Sweden during the pandemic, the international student experience, how your workplaces responded, long-distance relationships, and challenges facing new parents. You can read the latest news about the outbreak in our paywall-free blog.

If you’ve got a question about Covid-19 or life in Sweden, or a story that you would like to share, you are always welcome to email [email protected]. We can’t answer every email we receive, but we do read them all and will do our best to help if we can.

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COVID-19

Public Health Agency recommends two Covid doses next year for elderly

Sweden's Public Health Agency is recommending that those above the age of 80 should receive two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine a year, once in the spring and once in the autumn, as it shifts towards a longer-term strategy for the virus.

Published: 23 December 2022 10:53 CET
Public Health Agency recommends two Covid doses next year for elderly

In a new recommendation, the agency said that those living in elderly care centres, and those above the age of 80 should from March 1st receive two vaccinations a year, with a six month gap between doses. 

“Elderly people develop a somewhat worse immune defence after vaccination and immunity wanes faster than among young and healthy people,” the agency said. “That means that elderly people have a greater need of booster doses than younger ones. The Swedish Public Health Agency considers, based on the current knowledge, that it will be important even going into the future to have booster doses for the elderly and people in risk groups.” 

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People between the ages of 65 and 79 years old and young people with risk factors, such as obesity, diabetes, poor kidney function or high blood pressure, are recommended to take one additional dose per year.

The new vaccination recommendation, which will start to apply from March 1st next year, is only for 2023, Johanna Rubin, the investigator in the agency’s vaccination programme unit, explained. 

She said too much was still unclear about how long protection from vaccination lasted to institute a permanent programme.

“This recommendation applies to 2023. There is not really an abundance of data on how long protection lasts after a booster dose, of course, but this is what we can say for now,” she told the TT newswire. 

It was likely, however, that elderly people would end up being given an annual dose to protect them from any new variants, as has long been the case with influenza.

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