Danish health managers look at Sweden’s low Omicron numbers
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Cases and deaths are dramatically lower than among neighbors
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Sweden is currently experiencing the slightest wave of Omicron Covid infections by any of its Scandinavian neighbors. With a rolling average of less than 500 cases per million, it is less than Norway (700), Finland (1100) and Denmark (3000). The daily deaths in Covid are below 0.5 per million – half as large as in Norway and a third in Finland or Denmark.
In an interview today with Svenska Dagbladet, Professor Lone Simonsen at Rosklide University in Denmark sa it is not yet clear what explains the difference:
– Prof. Lone Simonsen, Rosklide University
The Danish wave has been the most dramatic so far, but the health managers there express confidence that the milder nature of the Omicron variant will mean that normal life can soon be resumed.
Tyra Grove Krause, chief epidemiologist at the national disease center “SSI”, told Danish TV2 that the risk of ending up in hospital is half as great as for previous variants and that the peak would come later in January.
Lone Simonsen agrees that Denmark will soon go through the worst and that many Danes do not even know they are infected. She is convinced that there will be no significant excess mortality:
– Prof. Lone Simonsen, Rosklide University