Swedish Government Recommends
The Swedish national board of health and welfare (Socialstyrelsen) is recommending all city counsels (landsting) to purchase vaccine against A(H1N1). The recommendation encompasses the purchase of a total of 18 million doses, which is enough to vaccinate the entire population of Sweden with two doses.
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A(H1N1) is a completely new form av influenza and because of this probably no human has immunity for it. The Swedish national board of health and welfare concludes that between 20 and 40 percent of the population will be infected. The risk is great that the entire society will be affected more than if it were a regular influenza. The first deliveries of the vaccine will occur this autumn. According to the preliminary plan all doses will be delivered by the beginning of 2010.
Canada Plans to Vaccinate Entire Population
Five-to-40-year-olds and Canada’s aboriginal communities should be the first to get vaccinated against human swine flu, experts say as Canadian officials decide who gets priority for the flu shots.
Under Canada’s official pandemic plan, the entire population would ultimately be immunized against the H1N1 swine flu.
But the vaccine will become available in batches, meaning the entire population can’t be vaccinated at once. It might take four or five months to get all the vaccine we’re going to get, during which time a second wave of swine flu may well be underway.
The Public Health Agency of Canada is working on a priority list, deciding where the first batches should go, and who should get the injections first. All provinces and territories would be expected to follow the national prioritization scheme.
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