OFFER VOLUNTEERS: The Johnson & Johnson vaccine is now offered to volunteer Danes. We get the same scheme in Norway. Photo: DIRK WAEM / BELGA
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Thousands of Danes are queuing today to get their first bite of the controversial Johnson & Johnson vaccine – which has been scrapped by the Danish and Norwegian vaccination programs.
The vaccine is now offered voluntarily in Denmark. We get the same scheme in Norway.
Danish TV 2 News reports about thousands queuing to get their first bite. The first volunteers receive the vaccine today – and jump further in the queue, than if they had gone through the vaccination program.
The vaccines AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson are scrapped from FHI’s vaccination program due to blood clot side effects. FHI also did not want the vaccines to be offered voluntarily outside the program.
– It was quite nice
The company Practio is responsible for the online consultations – and for providing the vaccine itself.
Director of the company, Jonas Nilsen, tells the Danish media that as many as 13,000 have registered for digital pre-consultation and that they are “in principle” ready to be vaccinated.
—-DIRECTOR: Director of the company Practio, Jonas Nilsen. Photo: BARSOE TEAM
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He hopes to be able to vaccinate 5,000 a day next week.
– It was quite nice, a pretty quiet and calm little sting, volunteer Mikael Hoier added Denmark Radio after he was vaccinated.
The vaccine was administered at Sønderbro Apotek in Copenhagen.
Hoier is director of the Danish company Lowenco, which will soon go to India to install 20 freezers at a vaccine factory.
—-WAITING FOR VACCINATION: Danes are waiting in a vaccine queue in Denmark at a vaccination center in Copenhagen. This photo was taken on April 12 and is not by volunteers receiving the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Photo: RITZAU SCANPIX
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The scheme has been criticized
The voluntary vaccination scheme has received much criticism in Norway. Including the medical association, who believes it is on the verge of unjustified treatment.
NIPH Director Camilla Stoltenberg has even stated to VG that she would not take the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
In a survey conducted by Respons Analyze for VG, it was recently revealed that one in five Norwegians is positive about taking the Johnson & Johnson Vaccine.
However, FHI has been clear that the risk of side effects is higher than the benefit of taking the vaccine, and has emphasized that the figures from the United States, which has used the vaccine extensively, are uncertain.
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