The first corona shots, a year ago to the day, were also taken in Overijsel. Sabine van het Bolscher employee of the Medisch Spectrum Twente (MST) in Enschede was given the vaccine. Hopefully this will be the turnaround for the Netherlands to go back to normal”, Van het Bolscher then indicated. A year later we are in the middle of a lockdown and a booster campaign. round”, says GGD doctor Jan-Willem van Capelle of GGD IJsselland
“It was a year with ups and downs”, Van Capelle recalls. “A hectic year, first the pandemic that came over us with all the limitations we had. Then luckily came the announcement that a vaccine was available for everyone.” Van Cappelle also thinks back to the joy earlier this year when measures could be relaxed again. “We have overcome this”, Van Capelle describes the thought of many people. “But yes, what we could have counted on our fingers, in the autumn the misery started again. And we are still in it.”
Not back to square one
Nevertheless, Van Capelle, who as a location doctor supervises the pricking, believes that we are not back where we started. “Everyone who has been pricked, of course, has a certain resistance to the virus, probably also against the virus that is now circulating. But we are certainly not completely protected.”
If you look at the figures, you get the feeling that the vaccination rate in the Netherlands will remain at 85 percent. Van Capelle is not very concerned about this rise when he looks at IJsselland, the Security Region where he is involved in vaccinations. “Of course we are at locations. Where we are, we see a lot of people, not only for their boosters but also for the first or second shot.”
Prikangst
Van Capelle does not dare to say whether that fifteen percent also includes many people with a fear of needles. “We see a lot of people with a fear of injection, but they overcome their fear because they notice that their actions are severely limited” In addition, the GGD doctor notices that these people are also urged by family to get the injection mainly because there are the family one or more people belong to the group of vulnerable people.
The aim of the vaccination campaign is to remove the virus from society, Van Capelle emphasizes. So that shops, but also catering and other sectors that are now closed can open again. No easy task, we know in the meantime. “I certainly expect a fourth round,” says the GGD doctor. “We don’t know which virus we will have to deal with in the fourth round, but you can take in poison that there will be another mutation and depending on how sickening that next mutation is, you will have to arm yourself against that.”
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