http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10364503/Denmark-health-chief-says-Omicron-bringing-END-pandemic.html
Denmark health chief says Omicron is bringing about the END of the
pandemic and 'we will have our normal lives back in two months'
Tyra Grove Krause is the chief epidemiologist at Denmark's State Serum >Institute
Speaking Monday, she said Omicron's hospitalisation risk was half that
of Delta
This, she said, could spell the end of the pandemic in around two months
By CHRIS JEWERS FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 07:46 EST, 3 January 2022 | UPDATED: 11:06 EST, 3 January 2022
5.7k
shares
1.3k
View comments
A Danish health chief has said the Covid-19 Omicron variant is bringing
about the end of the pandemic, saying 'we will have our normal lives
back in two months'.
Speaking to Danish TV 2, Tyra Grove Krause - the chief epidemiologist at >Denmark's State Serum Institute - said a new study from the organisation >found that the risk of hospitalisation from Omicron is half that seen
with the Delta variant.
This, she said, has given Danish authorities hope that the Covid-19
pandemic in Denmark could be over in two months.
Speaking to Danish TV 2, Tyra Grove Krause (pictured) - the chief >epidemiologist at Denmark's State Serum Institute - said that a new
study from the organisation found that the risk of hospitalisation from >Omicron is half that seen with the Delta variant +5
Speaking to Danish TV 2, Tyra Grove Krause (pictured) - the chief >epidemiologist at Denmark's State Serum Institute - said that a new
study from the organisation found that the risk of hospitalisation from >Omicron is half that seen with the Delta variant
+5
'I think we will have that in the next two months, and then I hope the >infection will start to subside and we get our normal lives back,' she
said on Monday.
Despite early fears that Omicron could prolong the pandemic due to its >increased level of infection, Ms Krause said it actually could spell the
end of the pandemic.
According to the study: 'Omicron is here to stay, and it will provide
some massive spread of infection in the coming month. When it's over,
we're in a better place than we were before.'
But while infection numbers in countries with the variant are soaring,
the expert said that the highly infectious Omicron appears milder than
the Delta variant, and therefore more people will be infected without
having serious symptoms.
As a result, she said, this will provide a good level of immunity in the >population.
Denmark has seen a spike in new cases in recent weeks, and on Sunday
recorded its highest ever seven-day average infections, recording an
average of 20,886 across the previous week, or 3,592.74 per million
people - one of Europe's highest rates.
It reported its highest ever new infections on December 27 (41,035).
By comparison, the UK's seven-day average daily new confirmed Covid-19
cases per million people sits at 2,823.31 as on Monday, while in the
United States, that number is 1,215.76 - lower than many countries in
Europe.
Ms Krause stressed that there was still work to be done to beat the
pandemic in the coming months, however.
'Omicron will peak at the end of January, and in February we will see >declining infection pressure and a decreasing pressure on the health
care system,' she said.
'But we have to make an effort in January, because it will be hard to
get through.'
RELATED ARTICLES
Previous
1
Next
Boris Johnson says NHS staff could be moved to plug...
Ministers are 'confident' NO more Covid curbs will be needed...
SHARE THIS ARTICLE
Share
Pictured: People queue for rapid COVID-19 test in the center of Aalborg, >Denmark, to the test site at Budolfi Church, Thursday, December 23,
2021. Danish officials are hopeful that Omicron could spell the end of
the pandemic +5
Pictured: People queue for rapid COVID-19 test in the center of Aalborg, >Denmark, to the test site at Budolfi Church, Thursday, December 23,
2021. Danish officials are hopeful that Omicron could spell the end of
the pandemic
The epidemiologist said Danes should continue to follow the now
well-known measures to help slow the spread, such as good hygiene,
social distancing where possible, and staying at home when symptoms
present themselves.
Omicron's increasing spread will continue to put pressure on Denmark's >healthcare system, she said. 'This is definitely what will be the
challenge in the future.'
Professor Lars Østergaard, chief physician at the Department of
Infectious Diseases at Aarhus University Hospital, also looked towards
the end of the pandemic in comments made on January 1.
He said that while the coronavirus will not be characterised as a
pandemic forever, it will likely never fully disappear.
I never think we'll ever wave goodbye to the corona,' he said.
'But we want such a good immunity in the population - partly because of
new vaccines, partly because people have been infected - that we can
handle it as another of the infections we know that come especially in
the winter month.'
+5
+5
Ms Krause agreed, saying: 'In the long run, we are in a place where >coronavirus is here, but where we have restrained it, and only the >particularly vulnerable need to be vaccinated up to the next winter
season.'
Ms Krause's optimistic comments came three days after the World Health >Organisation made a similarly hopeful statement about Omicron.
'If we put an end to inequality, we will put an end to the pandemic and
the global nightmare that we have all gone through,' WHO chief Tedro's >Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a speech on New Years Eve.
But the WHO also warned warned of trying times ahead, saying Omicron
could lead to 'a tsunami of cases'.
'This... will continue to put immense pressure on exhausted health
workers, and health systems on the brink of collapse,' Ghebreyesus said.
Many Western leaders have been hesitant to reimpose strict controls seen
in 2020, for fear of sparking a new economic downturn.
But on-again-off-again restrictions have still prompted frequent, vocal
and occasionally violent anti-lockdown, anti-vaccine and anti-government >protests.
Experts and non-experts alike hope that 2022 may be remembered as a new,
less deadly phase of the pandemic.
Michael Ejercito wrote:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10364503/Denmark-health-chief-says-Omicron-bringing-END-pandemic.html
Denmark health chief says Omicron is bringing about the END of the
pandemic and 'we will have our normal lives back in two months'
Tyra Grove Krause is the chief epidemiologist at Denmark's State Serum
Institute
Speaking Monday, she said Omicron's hospitalisation risk was half that
of Delta
This, she said, could spell the end of the pandemic in around two months
By CHRIS JEWERS FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 07:46 EST, 3 January 2022 | UPDATED: 11:06 EST, 3 January 2022
5.7k
shares
1.3k
View comments
A Danish health chief has said the Covid-19 Omicron variant is bringing
about the end of the pandemic, saying 'we will have our normal lives
back in two months'.
Speaking to Danish TV 2, Tyra Grove Krause - the chief epidemiologist at
Denmark's State Serum Institute - said a new study from the organisation
found that the risk of hospitalisation from Omicron is half that seen
with the Delta variant.
This, she said, has given Danish authorities hope that the Covid-19
pandemic in Denmark could be over in two months.
Speaking to Danish TV 2, Tyra Grove Krause (pictured) - the chief
epidemiologist at Denmark's State Serum Institute - said that a new
study from the organisation found that the risk of hospitalisation from
Omicron is half that seen with the Delta variant +5
Speaking to Danish TV 2, Tyra Grove Krause (pictured) - the chief
epidemiologist at Denmark's State Serum Institute - said that a new
study from the organisation found that the risk of hospitalisation from
Omicron is half that seen with the Delta variant
+5
'I think we will have that in the next two months, and then I hope the
infection will start to subside and we get our normal lives back,' she
said on Monday.
Despite early fears that Omicron could prolong the pandemic due to its
increased level of infection, Ms Krause said it actually could spell the
end of the pandemic.
According to the study: 'Omicron is here to stay, and it will provide
some massive spread of infection in the coming month. When it's over,
we're in a better place than we were before.'
But while infection numbers in countries with the variant are soaring,
the expert said that the highly infectious Omicron appears milder than
the Delta variant, and therefore more people will be infected without
having serious symptoms.
As a result, she said, this will provide a good level of immunity in the
population.
Denmark has seen a spike in new cases in recent weeks, and on Sunday
recorded its highest ever seven-day average infections, recording an
average of 20,886 across the previous week, or 3,592.74 per million
people - one of Europe's highest rates.
It reported its highest ever new infections on December 27 (41,035).
By comparison, the UK's seven-day average daily new confirmed Covid-19
cases per million people sits at 2,823.31 as on Monday, while in the
United States, that number is 1,215.76 - lower than many countries in
Europe.
Ms Krause stressed that there was still work to be done to beat the
pandemic in the coming months, however.
'Omicron will peak at the end of January, and in February we will see
declining infection pressure and a decreasing pressure on the health
care system,' she said.
'But we have to make an effort in January, because it will be hard to
get through.'
RELATED ARTICLES
Previous
1
Next
Boris Johnson says NHS staff could be moved to plug...
Ministers are 'confident' NO more Covid curbs will be needed...
SHARE THIS ARTICLE
Share
Pictured: People queue for rapid COVID-19 test in the center of Aalborg,
Denmark, to the test site at Budolfi Church, Thursday, December 23,
2021. Danish officials are hopeful that Omicron could spell the end of
the pandemic +5
Pictured: People queue for rapid COVID-19 test in the center of Aalborg,
Denmark, to the test site at Budolfi Church, Thursday, December 23,
2021. Danish officials are hopeful that Omicron could spell the end of
the pandemic
The epidemiologist said Danes should continue to follow the now
well-known measures to help slow the spread, such as good hygiene,
social distancing where possible, and staying at home when symptoms
present themselves.
Omicron's increasing spread will continue to put pressure on Denmark's
healthcare system, she said. 'This is definitely what will be the
challenge in the future.'
Professor Lars Østergaard, chief physician at the Department of
Infectious Diseases at Aarhus University Hospital, also looked towards
the end of the pandemic in comments made on January 1.
He said that while the coronavirus will not be characterised as a
pandemic forever, it will likely never fully disappear.
I never think we'll ever wave goodbye to the corona,' he said.
'But we want such a good immunity in the population - partly because of
new vaccines, partly because people have been infected - that we can
handle it as another of the infections we know that come especially in
the winter month.'
+5
+5
Ms Krause agreed, saying: 'In the long run, we are in a place where
coronavirus is here, but where we have restrained it, and only the
particularly vulnerable need to be vaccinated up to the next winter
season.'
Ms Krause's optimistic comments came three days after the World Health
Organisation made a similarly hopeful statement about Omicron.
'If we put an end to inequality, we will put an end to the pandemic and
the global nightmare that we have all gone through,' WHO chief Tedro's
Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a speech on New Years Eve.
But the WHO also warned warned of trying times ahead, saying Omicron
could lead to 'a tsunami of cases'.
'This... will continue to put immense pressure on exhausted health
workers, and health systems on the brink of collapse,' Ghebreyesus said.
Many Western leaders have been hesitant to reimpose strict controls seen
in 2020, for fear of sparking a new economic downturn.
But on-again-off-again restrictions have still prompted frequent, vocal
and occasionally violent anti-lockdown, anti-vaccine and anti-government
protests.
Experts and non-experts alike hope that 2022 may be remembered as a new,
less deadly phase of the pandemic.
The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
Denmark & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids that render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10364503/Denmark-health-chief-says-Omicron-bringing-END-pandemic.html
Denmark health chief says Omicron is bringing about the END of the
pandemic and 'we will have our normal lives back in two months'
Tyra Grove Krause is the chief epidemiologist at Denmark's State Serum
Institute
Speaking Monday, she said Omicron's hospitalisation risk was half that
of Delta
This, she said, could spell the end of the pandemic in around two months >>> By CHRIS JEWERS FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 07:46 EST, 3 January 2022 | UPDATED: 11:06 EST, 3 January 2022 >>>
5.7k
shares
1.3k
View comments
A Danish health chief has said the Covid-19 Omicron variant is bringing
about the end of the pandemic, saying 'we will have our normal lives
back in two months'.
Speaking to Danish TV 2, Tyra Grove Krause - the chief epidemiologist at >>> Denmark's State Serum Institute - said a new study from the organisation >>> found that the risk of hospitalisation from Omicron is half that seen
with the Delta variant.
This, she said, has given Danish authorities hope that the Covid-19
pandemic in Denmark could be over in two months.
Speaking to Danish TV 2, Tyra Grove Krause (pictured) - the chief
epidemiologist at Denmark's State Serum Institute - said that a new
study from the organisation found that the risk of hospitalisation from
Omicron is half that seen with the Delta variant +5
Speaking to Danish TV 2, Tyra Grove Krause (pictured) - the chief
epidemiologist at Denmark's State Serum Institute - said that a new
study from the organisation found that the risk of hospitalisation from
Omicron is half that seen with the Delta variant
+5
'I think we will have that in the next two months, and then I hope the
infection will start to subside and we get our normal lives back,' she
said on Monday.
Despite early fears that Omicron could prolong the pandemic due to its
increased level of infection, Ms Krause said it actually could spell the >>> end of the pandemic.
According to the study: 'Omicron is here to stay, and it will provide
some massive spread of infection in the coming month. When it's over,
we're in a better place than we were before.'
But while infection numbers in countries with the variant are soaring,
the expert said that the highly infectious Omicron appears milder than
the Delta variant, and therefore more people will be infected without
having serious symptoms.
As a result, she said, this will provide a good level of immunity in the >>> population.
Denmark has seen a spike in new cases in recent weeks, and on Sunday
recorded its highest ever seven-day average infections, recording an
average of 20,886 across the previous week, or 3,592.74 per million
people - one of Europe's highest rates.
It reported its highest ever new infections on December 27 (41,035).
By comparison, the UK's seven-day average daily new confirmed Covid-19
cases per million people sits at 2,823.31 as on Monday, while in the
United States, that number is 1,215.76 - lower than many countries in
Europe.
Ms Krause stressed that there was still work to be done to beat the
pandemic in the coming months, however.
'Omicron will peak at the end of January, and in February we will see
declining infection pressure and a decreasing pressure on the health
care system,' she said.
'But we have to make an effort in January, because it will be hard to
get through.'
RELATED ARTICLES
Previous
1
Next
Boris Johnson says NHS staff could be moved to plug...
Ministers are 'confident' NO more Covid curbs will be needed...
SHARE THIS ARTICLE
Share
Pictured: People queue for rapid COVID-19 test in the center of Aalborg, >>> Denmark, to the test site at Budolfi Church, Thursday, December 23,
2021. Danish officials are hopeful that Omicron could spell the end of
the pandemic +5
Pictured: People queue for rapid COVID-19 test in the center of Aalborg, >>> Denmark, to the test site at Budolfi Church, Thursday, December 23,
2021. Danish officials are hopeful that Omicron could spell the end of
the pandemic
The epidemiologist said Danes should continue to follow the now
well-known measures to help slow the spread, such as good hygiene,
social distancing where possible, and staying at home when symptoms
present themselves.
Omicron's increasing spread will continue to put pressure on Denmark's
healthcare system, she said. 'This is definitely what will be the
challenge in the future.'
Professor Lars Østergaard, chief physician at the Department of
Infectious Diseases at Aarhus University Hospital, also looked towards
the end of the pandemic in comments made on January 1.
He said that while the coronavirus will not be characterised as a
pandemic forever, it will likely never fully disappear.
I never think we'll ever wave goodbye to the corona,' he said.
'But we want such a good immunity in the population - partly because of
new vaccines, partly because people have been infected - that we can
handle it as another of the infections we know that come especially in
the winter month.'
+5
+5
Ms Krause agreed, saying: 'In the long run, we are in a place where
coronavirus is here, but where we have restrained it, and only the
particularly vulnerable need to be vaccinated up to the next winter
season.'
Ms Krause's optimistic comments came three days after the World Health
Organisation made a similarly hopeful statement about Omicron.
'If we put an end to inequality, we will put an end to the pandemic and
the global nightmare that we have all gone through,' WHO chief Tedro's
Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a speech on New Years Eve.
But the WHO also warned warned of trying times ahead, saying Omicron
could lead to 'a tsunami of cases'.
'This... will continue to put immense pressure on exhausted health
workers, and health systems on the brink of collapse,' Ghebreyesus said. >>>
Many Western leaders have been hesitant to reimpose strict controls seen >>> in 2020, for fear of sparking a new economic downturn.
But on-again-off-again restrictions have still prompted frequent, vocal
and occasionally violent anti-lockdown, anti-vaccine and anti-government >>> protests.
Experts and non-experts alike hope that 2022 may be remembered as a new, >>> less deadly phase of the pandemic.
The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
Denmark & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids that render current COVID
vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
| Sysop: | Keyop |
|---|---|
| Location: | Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK |
| Users: | 296 |
| Nodes: | 16 (2 / 14) |
| Uptime: | 61:22:10 |
| Calls: | 6,654 |
| Calls today: | 6 |
| Files: | 12,200 |
| Messages: | 5,331,524 |