To bring this back, yes Denmark is now the leading indicator of what omicron will do in western countries: Going to have to watch closely now for hospitalizations and mortality.
Unfortunately, OurData doesn't segregate the statistics into 3 key categories (Delta, Omicron, All). There is a website that does segregate the data but I lost track of it. Thus, it's tough to determine if Denmark's surge is mainly related to Delta, Omicron, or both. Actually, very few public online statistics websites do that. P.S. easymon1 has been posting a lot of off-topic crap in many threads lately. It's as if he's trying hard to convince us that he's lost his marbles.
Biden is planning to release millions of at home test kits, which is great. Let’s see if he mails them as I have said he should right here on the forum. The right wingers are pushing the omicron breakthrough rate as proof their idiocy was right but they’re just idiots. Vaccination certainly worked well on the previous variants but don’t seem to on this one. But that doesn’t prove anything.
Let me know when those home test kits arrive in the Scandinavian countries (e.g. Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway etc). Yeah, many right wingers have been trying hard to push the breakthrough rates while ignoring it's now spread enough that it's causing similar statistics for reinfections of those that had recovered from a prior Covid infection from 2020. The reinfections are being seen in Kentucky, Missouri, Michigan, Minnesota, France, Italy, South Africa, Austria, Denmark, Finland, and other places. So far, mostly just mild infections for breakthrough and reinfections. In my opinion, most people are making a big mistake in concentrating on Omicron because it's Delta Variant that's causing most of the severe illness, hospitalizations, and deaths. In fact, it's causing most of the severe illnesses in almost every country that has rising Covid infections. Thus, some countries are near capacity on last year's hospitalization numbers and anybody that works in public health will be scared about that fact because people with other illnesses or injuries not related to Covid... those patients can not get proper healthcare. Sweden, Brazil, India, Italy, the United States, and many other countries are prime examples of such. I'm not worried about Omicron unless it mutates into something more pathogenic...resulting in more severe Covid illnesses. As I stated before, humans are unhealthy, very selfish and too political. I see documentaries of people in many hospitals around the world (including the U.S.) by people on a ventilator battling a second Covid infection from Delta... Their Natural Immunity from the first infection in 2020 had already waned and they still say they will not get vaccinated. wrbtrader
Of course the European leader is a country that took prompt action to lockdown the unvaccinated; Austria. Case still in steep decline -- despite Omicron. The world can take a lesson from their leadership.
Let's see how things are going in "no-lockdown Sweden". Oh, they are demanding people work from home, imposing new restrictions, stopping public events, and adding harsher social distancing rules. Sweden hardens COVID curbs amid worries over Omicron https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/sweden-tightens-covid-restrictions-cases-mount-2021-12-21/ Raft of new measures announced Measures include work-from-home recommendation where possible Also tightens social distancing rules for public venues Will take effect on Dec. 23 Health Agency sees infections climbing further, peaking in Jan Sweden will urge all employees to work from home if possible and impose tighter rules for social distancing, the government said on Tuesday, as it ratchets up restrictions to fight a surge in new infections and the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus. (More at above url) So much for "natural immunity".
IN NUMBERS: Covid patients increase in Sweden over New Year’s period There are now more Covid-19 patients in Swedish hospitals than at any point since May last year. https://www.thelocal.se/20220103/in-numbers-covid-patients-increase-in-sweden-over-new-years-period/