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Originally Posted by GGG
It’s interesting that Denmark has no increase so is this the omicron variant variant driving these?
And the other thing to note is that hospitalizations is what will matter not cases. Denmarks made it through wide open so I’m not overly concerned with this one. We will also me almost into spring so that should put negative pressure on the virus to some degree.
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Denmark's numbers might be related to scaling back testing. They're only doing about 1/4 the tests per day compared to the November - February period, and the positivity rate is now up to 32%. And their hospital numbers still haven't dropped much from their peak in late February (ICU numbers are exceedingly low though).
The rise in Europe probably isn't all that surprising. A place like the UK was saved largely due to its fast booster rollout; but now a few months later, those boosters are starting to be less effective at preventing infection so you'd expect to see those people who were boosted in Dec/Jan start to get infected at a higher rate.