THE QUESTION
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If it's true, it's a bomb
." On the CNews set, host Pascal Praud relayed the tweet of epidemiologist Martin Blachier who indicated, based on data from a Danish document, that the Omicron variant "
selects the vaccinated because the vaccine escape him confers an advantage in these people
”. "
Danish data at Omicron: 8% in triple vaccinated, 5.5% in double vaccinated, 1.2% in non-vaccinated
", abounds the media doctor on the social network, table in support.
Shared more than 5,000 times on Twitter, Pascal Praud thus commented on the tweet on stage: “
If it's true, it's a bomb. Omicron would affect the triples vaccinated more than the unvaccinated
”. Denmark is currently suffering the full brunt of the fifth epidemic wave of Covid, and above all, is experiencing a very sharp increase in declared cases of the Omicron variant, of the order of 10% of contaminations in the country, one of the highest rates of 'Europe after the United Kingdom. At the same time, according to the first studies available on the Omicron variant, we know that the two-dose vaccine is less effective in terms of infection against the new variant. Does the Omicron variant affect the vaccinated people more? What does the data in the Danish document clearly show?
Read alsoWhy are vaccines less effective against the Omicron variant?
CHECKS
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The screenshot relayed by Dr Martin Blachier on Twitter comes from a document published daily by a public research institute linked to the Danish Ministry of Health.
The document provides figures on the status of the Omicron variant in the country.
Ambiguous, the tweet of the epidemiologist suggests that 8% of triple-vaccinated were contaminated by the Omicron variant.
In reality, these 8% represent the proportion of people contaminated with the Omicron variant among the triple vaccinated people who were contaminated.
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It means that when you are infected with Covid-19 in Denmark, the probability that it is by the variant ...
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