He trained as a nurse in adulthood, and has for the past three years worked with the intensive care patients at the hospital in Gjøvik.
– In a way, I feel almost privileged, because we are probably the world’s most coveted working group during the day, says Jo Even Linnerud to TV 2.
He is clear that there should be no doubt that they provide health care to those who need it.
– Hard to stand in it
But the intensive care nurse says it is demanding when the patients who come in have refused to be vaccinated.
– It is very challenging. We will provide professional health care, but it does something to you. We know what it costs us personally to stand in it, and we know what such a place costs. But it’s just like they do not care about it, says Linnerud.
It was Oppland Arbeiderblad who mentioned the case first.
– It is simply hard to stand in it, says the intensive care nurse.
Tops the statistics
On Monday, there were 358 corona patients admitted to Norwegian hospitals. 109 of these are admitted to the intensive care unit, and of these, 62 patients receive respiratory treatment.
At Oslo University Hospital, those admitted with coronary heart disease mostly consist of unvaccinated or people with other underlying immune diseases.
– DEMANDING: Jo Even Linnerud has worked with seriously ill coronary patients for almost two years. Photo: Private
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According to national figures from FHI, this also applies to the rest of the country’s hospitals.
The unvaccinated are a small group of 110,000 Norwegians over the age of 45 – but make up 40 percent of all coronary-related hospitalizations in the country.
Intensive care nurse Linnerud emphasizes that a distinction must be made between those who have a valid reason for not being vaccinated, and those who are deniers of the pandemic as well as vaccine skeptics.
– In my opinion, very few of the inmates have a valid reason. Most are skeptics, and the most dangerous are the deniers who get sick, says Linnerud.
– Demanding
– What do you think when an unvaccinated patient comes in?
– I’m very upset. Then it goes on for a while, I also get sad. Then I hope I have a few minutes to recover, to sharpen up. Because I have to be a professional and give the right health care. But it is demanding to give the patient the care they should have, he says.
Linnerud says that vaccine-skeptical patients are more humble after receiving treatment.
– The ones who provoke the most are the provocateurs who deny the whole corona pandemic. We have had all categories. I try to be kinder and gentler with those who have been skeptical and may change their minds, he says.
Now he hopes more people will be persuaded to get vaccinated.
– I hope they will soon be so frightened that they resort to reason, Linnerud concludes.
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