How Omicron may 'lift us out of the pandemic, so that this becomes the last wave of corona'
The net effect of the global Omicron wave is that millions are poised to contract a version of COVID that will leave them with natural immunity at the cost of some cold-like symptoms
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Tristin Hopper
Publishing date:
Jan 07, 2022 • 8 hours ago • 3 minute read •
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As Omicron continues to surge through global populations with unprecedented speed, health officials in one of the world’s harder-hit countries are already sounding a note of optimism that the variant could spell humanity’s deliverance from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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“(Omicron) may be what is going to lift us out of the pandemic, so that this becomes the last wave of corona,” Tyra Grove Krause, technical director with Denmark’s Statens Serum Institut (SSI), told the country’s TV2 broadcaster on Monday.
Last week, Denmark was posting the world’s highest rate of COVID-19 infections , with roughly one in every 60 Danes nursing an active case of the disease.
While the Danish health-care system is still bracing for Omicron hospitalizations to peak in mid-January, Krause argued that the uniquely mild variant is poised to infect so many Danes in the coming days that it will impart a kind of herd immunity shielding the country from future variants.
Within two months, said Krause, “I hope the infection will start to subside and we get our normal lives back.”
The net effect of the global Omicron wave is that millions are poised to contract a version of COVID that will leave them with natural immunity at the cost of some cold-like symptoms
Author of the article:
Tristin Hopper
Publishing date:
Jan 07, 2022 • 8 hours ago • 3 minute read •
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As Omicron continues to surge through global populations with unprecedented speed, health officials in one of the world’s harder-hit countries are already sounding a note of optimism that the variant could spell humanity’s deliverance from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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“(Omicron) may be what is going to lift us out of the pandemic, so that this becomes the last wave of corona,” Tyra Grove Krause, technical director with Denmark’s Statens Serum Institut (SSI), told the country’s TV2 broadcaster on Monday.
Last week, Denmark was posting the world’s highest rate of COVID-19 infections , with roughly one in every 60 Danes nursing an active case of the disease.
While the Danish health-care system is still bracing for Omicron hospitalizations to peak in mid-January, Krause argued that the uniquely mild variant is poised to infect so many Danes in the coming days that it will impart a kind of herd immunity shielding the country from future variants.
Within two months, said Krause, “I hope the infection will start to subside and we get our normal lives back.”
