Posted on 12/25/2021 12:38:00 PM PST by nickcarraway
Early benchmarks from Denmark on infections and hospitalizations are providing grounds for guarded optimism that highly vaccinated countries might be able to weather the omicron wave.
The developments, coupled with Denmark’s speedy rollout of booster shots, have raised hopes the country can avoid the dire coronavirus surge for which it has been bracing.
Europe faces its second covid Christmas with lockdowns, cancellations and rising cases
“It’s too early to relax, but it’s encouraging that we are not following the worst-case scenario,” said Tyra Grove Krause, the chief epidemiologist at Denmark’s State Serum Institute.
Denmark’s detailed, nationwide program for coronavirus testing and analysis gives its scientists a trove of real-time data about the pandemic. Because of that — and because it was one of the first countries outside of Africa to witness omicron’s explosive potential — it has turned into a European bellwether for what to expect with the omicron variant.
Over the past week, the country has fared better than it was expecting. After surging to record-breaking levels, the number of daily cases has stabilized. Officials recorded 12,500 cases on Thursday, compared with 11,000 late last week.
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Dire?
I do not think that word means what Chico thinks it means.
The “dire” head-cold.
That's horrible spin from WaPo. Omicron is mild. The Washington Post ignores that and gives credit to the vaccines. And this is all one day after the following from the American Thinker.
(excerpt)
79 percent of Danes infected with Omicron by December 15 were fully jabbed, according to a report released Tuesday by the Statens Serum Institut (SSI), a Danish health ministry that tracks COVID-19 variants. The double-vaccinated accounted for more than 14,000 of 17,767 Omicron infections recorded in Denmark since the country’s first reported case on November 22.
Those with a booster shot made up another 10.6 percent of cases of the new variant, and people with one jab were an additional 1.8 percent. The unvaccinated – around one-fifth of the Danish population – were just 8.5 percent of Omicron infections.
Cases...
Denmark
JHU Coronavirus Resource Center
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/denmark
( 3,114 Danish officially dead from COVID over two years time / 5,792,202 Danes ) x 100 = 0.054 &
Only about five hundredths of one percent. Panic!
The tone of the WaPo article suggests to me that what is being constructed around a “waning” event as its full two year anniversary comes around is the chance for many to “get off the stage” gracefully.
Yep
Mostly ignore it?
Ping.
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