Fully vaccinated people should not be particularly worried about infection, according to a vaccine researcher. The Norwegian Directorate of Health points out that too many infected people can overload the health service.
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– For the well-vaccinated, infection will be associated with very little risk. At the same time, if we get a lot of infection in society and an overload on the health care system of people in risk groups, then it affects the rest of us as well. But in the main, fully vaccinated people do not have to be so worried about infection, says immunologist and vaccine researcher Gunnveig Grødeland at the University of Oslo to NRK.
If the health service has the capacity to treat those who become seriously ill, she believes that it should be possible to greatly facilitate the measures.
– For most people, the pandemic is over, the vaccine researcher believes.
FHI stated on Wednesday that it can be established with a high degree of probability that omicron causes around a third or half as serious a disease as the delta variant.
The reports please Health Director Bjørn Guldvog, who emphasizes that the disease will be mild for most people who have been vaccinated with two or three doses.
– But if very many are infected at the same time, and we can be even if we are fully vaccinated, then some will become seriously ill and need hospitalization. And if there are very many of them, it can overload the health service, Guldvog points out.
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