Vaccination against COVID-19

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Why are we vaccinating against COVID-19?

• Minimising deaths and severe illness from COVID-19. Now that most people have been vaccinated and/or had a COVID-19 infection, the risk of severe infection among healthy children and adults is lower than in 2020-2021. As a result, the focus has shifted to vaccinating those who are most at risk of severe illness and/or have a reduced ability to respond to vaccination.

• Reducing the epidemic's impact on socially essential activities, especially where COVID-19 is most felt, e.g. in the health system. That is why health practitioners in emergency health care (primary healthcare, hospitals) and workers in nursing homes are offered vaccination when there is a special occasion, e.g. if there have been changes in vaccines or if an outbreak is so widespread that even short-term protection against infection can affect the health system's resilience to the situation.