The provincial and federal governments here encourage all to get the bivalent vaccine.
"National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) continues to recommend that bivalent Omicron-containing mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are the preferred booster products for the authorized age groups. (Strong NACI recommendation)"
People aged 18–64 who are medically at-risk due to:
- chronic cardiovascular disease, including stroke and high blood pressure (hypertension)
- chronic lung disease such as COPD, and brittle asthma
- other conditions that impair lung function or the ability to cough and clear mucus (for example, extreme obesity, neuromuscular disorders or multiple disabilities)
- chronic liver and kidney failure
- diabetes types 1 and 2
- conditions that severely weaken the immune system as a result of illness or treatment
- Down’s syndrome
- those who are pregnant with pregnancy-related risk factors such as being older than 35, high blood pressure (hypertension), diabetes, a BMI over 30 or other factor following individual assessment.
English link: https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/the-public-health-agency...
Anecdotally, I have 2 friends who are doctors in the kommun and both said the hospitals are short staffed, beds are filling up and they're seeing much more of the RSV/flu/Covid mix coming to the ER from people that are not in the listed "at risk groups". This matches what my best friends wife, who is a pulmonologist in the US, is saying.