The chief epidemiologist of the National Institute for Infectious Disease Research in Denmark expressed a very pessimistic forecast over the weekend against the background of the outbreak of the Omicron variant in the country despite the high immunization rates in the first two doses.
"The coming month will be the worst period of the epidemic," epidemiologist Tyra Grove Krauss told the Washington Post.
Although this is a forecast that is currently based solely on models, the concern is that the slow pace of booster injection may impair the country's ability to deal with the variant, which is likely to infect most quickly compared to the Delta.
Only a quarter of all Danes eligible for a booster received it, so forecasts are bleak.
"Hospitals will collapse under the load, I have no shadow of a doubt about that," she added, stressing that although the signs still show that the strain causes less severe symptoms than the Delta, the extent of infection will be so huge and therefore the load will be inevitable.
According to her, if the virus is compared to a flood, then it can be said that the vaccines created two walls of protection against the virus in its previous variants: the first wall worked against infection and the second wall worked against severe symptoms.
Now, because of the signs that the omicron is infecting vaccinated in two doses as those that are not vaccinated at all, this wall has collapsed, and the flood of the virus is expected to overflow.
Before the current wave, there had never been more than 5,000 cases of infection per day in the country (not just Omicron).
Now the rate is over twice as high: over 11,000 cases a day.
In a week it is expected that there will be 27,000 new cases every day.
And in January, according to the graph they presented, there is no longer room to list how many cases there will be.
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