As for Denmark's policy, it's seems poorly conceived to me. I can see the logic in not rolling out a full-population mass vaccination campaign trying to target every last person given the levels of immunity and the low risk for that age group. But why shouldn't someone under 50 be able to get vaccinated if they want to? Instead they're going to create various exceptions (e.g. people with certain conditions, people who interact with vulnerable people at work, people who live with at-risk people, etc.). All that means is that the people under 50 who want to get vaccinated are just going to have to go through red tape and waste medical professionals' time to get included in those exceptions. Whereas if you just offered it to anyone who wanted it, that would all sort itself out.
It wouldn't be the first time that Denmark made ill-advised COVID policy. They made a big show of declaring COVID to no longer be a public health threat last September, and then within 2.5 months they were reintroducing significant mitigation measures when infection levels became untenable.
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