Sweden plans to offer majority COVID booster shots in 2022 https://whbl.com/2021/08/03/sweden-plans-to-offer-majority-covid-booster-shots-in-2022/ The majority of Swedes will be offered a booster shot against COVID in 2022, while high risk groups could get a third shot during autumn of this year, the country’s health authority said on Tuesday. The authority did not give an exact figure for how many people would get a third shot next year, but said that a large part of the population would be offered another jab. Groups seen as high-risk, such as the elderly or people with underlying health conditions, will continue to be prioritised as booster vaccines are rolled-out, the authority added. “The assessment is that it is not possible to eradicate the virus and therefore vaccination work should be long-term and focused on reducing serious illness and death,” state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell said in a statement. The authority said it expected Sweden’s entire adult population will have received two shots of the vaccine by autumn, and that there will be a good supply of vaccine over the coming years.
Update on the charts we have seen for months... Sweden is at zero.... and doing the best...while other countries have already started to ramp up... How could that be? They did not follow the dictates of the fascists in the media? https://ourworldindata.org/explorer...L~CAN~FRA~GRC~GBR~USA&Metric=Confirmed+deaths
Sweden got their numbers down with strict restrictions that many stated would ruin their economy and steal their freedom. Sweden also used a little fear-mongering when they passed that Pandemic Law late last fall to give them the right to do a "lockdown" if needed. Then they hit the vaccinations heavily with better education about Covid in asking people "for help" to do the right thing and wear face masks / social distance voluntarily without any mandates. No vaccine mandates, no face mask mandates, temporarily strict restrictions, they finally did the right thing without the bullshit that we see today in the United States (e.g. bitching about vaccinations, bitching about mandates after failure to do the right thing)... Plus Anders Tegnell was publicly vaccinated, Swedish Health Agency high ranking people were vaccinated and both are advocates of vaccinations in which they've asked their citizens to do the right thing via getting vaccinated... Neither mention the words Natural Herd Immunity. As stated in the beginning...the Sweden people are better at their social interactions and they have a higher population of people working from home in comparison to the United States. It got derailed when foreigners ran to Sweden to escape lockdowns / restrictions in their country but Sweden became smart and dropped the hammer on that after all the growing Covid protests in Sweden... They passed that Pandemic Law that gave them the right to use a "lockdown" if needed and then they Thor smashed them with the strict restrictions plus temporary border closures... All of which the Covid Deniers in this thread had an issue with. P.S. Sweden Women's Soccer plays Canada for the Gold Medal Match...go Canada but Sweden are the favorite in the match because of their higher FIFA ranking and Tokyo Olympic performance so far. wrbtrader
Swedish researchers are paying unvaccinated people $23 to have their Covid shot Swedish scientists are attempting to find out if cash incentives could motivate people to get vaccinated against Covid-19. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have begun a study that will test various ways of encouraging vaccine uptake, with 8,200 unvaccinated people under the age of 60 taking part. Covid-19 vaccine rollouts are at different stages across Swedish regions, but many are now offering the vaccine to all adults over the age of 18. According to Sweden’s Public Health Agency, vaccinations for 16 and 17-year-olds are likely to be rolled out from August. The country controversially eschewed lockdown measures at the beginning of the pandemic, but later imposed some rules like mask-wearing as its population was hit by a winter spike in coronavirus cases. European countries, including Sweden, introduce new restrictions as Covid cases rise In the Lund University trial, participants were randomly allocated one of four motivation techniques. The first group was given information about the vaccines available to them — in Sweden, those are the Pfizer-BioNTech, Janssen and Moderna vaccines for under-60s. The second cohort was asked to formulate an argument that they believed would convince someone else to take the vaccine, while the third was asked to make a list of loved ones they would want to protect with the vaccine. Finally, a fourth technique of paying people to get vaccinated was used on some of the study’s participants. A number of participants were also used as a control group and were not subjected to any specific motivation methods — however, they were “encouraged” to get vaccinated. The research started at the beginning of this year, with scientists expecting provisional results in September. Participants’ “intention to vaccinate” — whether they want to get vaccinated within the first month of the vaccine becoming available to them — and official data that shows whether they actually are vaccinated will be used to measure the success of the study’s four motivational techniques. Armando Meier, an economist who is co-author of the study, told CNBC via telephone on Monday that people’s stated intentions did not necessarily match their actions. In a survey of the participants at the beginning of the study, 80% said they would get the vaccine within a month of it being offered to them. However, Meier said that the actual take up rate showed the number of people who had actually accepted the shot was much lower. Currently, 39% of Sweden’s population is fully vaccinated, while 22% of the population has had one dose of a vaccine, according to Our World in Data. “We don’t see particularly high vaccine hesitancy in Sweden when compared to other [countries], but we know that vaccination rates are plateauing, particularly among younger people,” Meier said. “I wouldn’t say that the Swedes are particularly vaccine hesitant or particularly pro-vaccine, but we definitely have a high willingness to get vaccinated.” Meier added that it was difficult to predict which of the study’s methods might be most effective in boosting vaccination rates. “Many governments clearly believe that targeting people’s prosociality by telling them, ‘the vaccine doesn’t only protect you, it also protects others,’ is an effective strategy, because that’s what a lot of the messaging is about,” he told CNBC. “At the same time, we also see that a lot of countries emphasize information, so they think as long as they inform people that vaccines are safe and effective, that will do the trick — based on previous research in social sciences, it’s not so clear whether that’s actually all that compelling.” When it came to the financial reward, Meier conceded that the study gave a “rather a small incentive.” Participants in the study who were given a monetary reward for being vaccinated received 200 Swedish krona ($23) for getting their vaccine, which was paid in the form of a gift card that could be used in most online stores. “This is really supposed to [motivate] people that basically already want to get vaccinated, but they somehow don’t find the time or just think it’s too much of a hassle,” Meier said. “It gives them a little bit of extra motivation to actually get vaccinated. And I think a lot of economists would think that these incentives work best.” Strategies across Europe Elsewhere in Europe, governments are using alternative methods to boost vaccine uptake. French lawmakers have approved rules that will require people to show proof of vaccination or a recent negative Covid-19 test to enter facilities such as museums and cinemas from August. Meanwhile, French healthcare workers are required to get vaccinated by Sept. 15 or face suspension. The day after President Emmanuel Macron announced that these measures would be coming into force, 1.3 million people in France made vaccination appointments. French government tightens rules to access public spaces in a bid to encourage Covid vaccinations German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s top advisor, Helge Braun, told German media on Sunday that unvaccinated individuals could not expect the same liberties as those who were fully vaccinated. However, the issue has reportedly divided German lawmakers. Just 49% of the German population has been fully vaccinated against Covid-19, according to Our World in Data. In France, that drops to 44%, the data shows. In England, it will be mandatory for nursing home employees to be vaccinated from October. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/26/swe...aying-people-23-to-have-their-covid-shot.html ---------- Yeah, Sweden has their act together now. They are now one of the model countries after being one of the worst. Anders Tegnell backtracking and denying he was using Natural Herd Immunity policy...is now forgiven because he's now fully vaccinated and advocating vaccination is the correct healthcare policy. Lets see if our Republican politicians of the United States will do the same...publicly announce their full vaccination along with encouraging American citizens to get vaccinated to minimize the threat by the Covid Delta Variant. wrbtrader
It's also interesting to note the statements by some government officials that if the bribe does not work in this experiment the next step is restrictions for the unvaccinated.
Right. Twitter - the social media giant with no medical knowledge - knows what accounts should be left alone and which should be suspended. If you follow The Religion™ you're just fine:
Sweden always has the option to increase the financial payout to the unvaccinated prior to any strict restrictions. I would try offering free condoms to unvaccinated people considering Sweden is very liberal about sex. Then again, Sweden now has a taste of the power of strict restrictions. If the Delta Variant becomes a problem in Sweden...they may just switch back on those "strict restrictions" again. wrbtrader
- Well we will see if the payout bribe idea works locally... NC to offer $100 for vaccinations https://www.wral.com/nc-to-offer-100-for-vaccinations/19807703/
Where is that information in search engine results? 1) What are your sources? 2) Does it detract from / Negate his message? Thanks