Trying desperately to prevent herd immunity from occurring.
Odd anomalies even in this latest "newly discovered," suggesting that the data definitions, collection and analyses are flawed, when framed in the larger :mortality rate" picture.
As of 4 February 2022, with worldometers.info as source:
( 3,811 "official Covid deaths" in Denmark / 5,792,202 Danes ) x 100 = 0.066 % Less than one-tenth of one percent over more than two years of this "official" pandemic.
( 157,730 "official Covid deaths" in the UK / 67,886,011 Brits ) x 100 = 0.232 % Almost four times the Danish mortality rate, and yet still less than one quarter of one percent of the population over more than two years.
( 500,087 "official Covid deaths" in India / 1,380,004,385 Indians ) x 100 = 0.036 % Much lower mortality rate than the United Kingdom, and for a supposedly third world country, the mortality rate is less than four-tenths of one percent over these past two+ years.
Possible conclusions?
The WebMD "report" reporting a CNBC "report" about the WHO report, accepts numbers uncritically, merely passing through the latest "pandemic" messaging. As seen in the above, more critical looks at the data are possible, rather than simply play the media game of Chinese Whispers.
The WHO assertion that places Denmark first, then the UK and India as third in this short list does NOT reflect the "official" mortality rates in any way. Hence, the WHO report merely talks up the latest "variant" which seems of minimal medical impact.
The article is the excuse for making the marketing pitch yet again, with "Vaccines protect people from illness and death from both the variant and the subvariant...."
If variants are varying and varying again, the assertion that "vaccines" -- without naming the mRNA "experimental" injections still under EUAs and clinical trials in the US -- for the first strain will work for subsequent strains is an assertion, not a proven as yet as fact. What is fact is that viruses attenuate and weaken, as the Spanish flu historical model shows in its approximately two years of "pandemic."
A comment in this thread observes, "Trying desperately to keep the panic and hysteria going." (metmom)
As of 4 February 2022, according to worldometers' "official" data,
( 5,733,072 "worldometers official" global deaths / 7,923,543,454 global population ) x 100 = 0.072 %
Less than one tenth of one percent "officially" Covid dead over two years worldwide, says worldometers' data.
As so, another albeit smaller anomaly validates metmom's conclusion. It is this, from the WHO through CNBC to WebMD's messaging....
Denmark's "highest number of Omicron subvariant cases" is framed by the FACT that the Denmark's mortality rate is LOWER than the worldwide average mortality rate.
One wonders who at the WHO puts out this copy, without considering the overall stats?
Biden and Fauci are sad.
Totally corrupt as it is, it’s simply astonishing that the WHO operates with more honesty and truthfulness and has more respect than the CDC.
WHO?
Liar, liar...
Notice that their “Science” make no mention of natural immunity, which is better than the jab.