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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 general, fully vaccinated do not have to be so worried about infection.
That’s what Gunnveig Grødeland, immunologist and vaccine researcher at the University of Oslo, says. She believes this speaks to ease the measures a bit now.
– If the health service has the capacity to treat those who become seriously ill, then measures should be made as much as possible in the measures.
She is optimistic and does not think it is long before the top is reached.
In the next few months, with more infected and vaccinated, one will form an increased protection among the population. It gives us an even better starting point to get out of this in a good way.
It will go even faster if even more people get vaccinated, the vaccine researcher believes.
– This is not over
– For most people, the pandemic is over, says the vaccine researcher.
– No, the Prime Minister answers NRK:
– You know what, I disagree with exactly that statement. We have an infection that can probably increase sharply, says Jonas Gahr Støre (Labor).
If it is half as dangerous, but twice as contagious, then we can get very many sick at the same time, many of them seriously. Then we get a problem in the health care system. And it affects us all. And then we must take into account high sickness absence that can affect important parts of society, the Prime Minister reasoned.
Still, he does not want to act like his French counterpart, the president Emmanuel Macron, and try to force everyone to get vaccinated. He believes that the high vaccine coverage in Norway is precisely due to the fact that there is no coercion here. Koronapass is a better idea, he believes.
– There must be a difference between those who have taken the vaccine, that you can go to cultural events and nightclubs. This will make it easier to eventually reopen society.
Less dangerous
In its last weekly report writes the National Institute of Public Health without reservation:
“A significant epidemic wave driven by the omicron variant can be expected in the coming weeks. However, the variant causes less serious illness. “
The subject director of FHI, Frode Forland, confirms to NRK that they can now with a high degree of probability determine that omikron is less serious. It shows studies from the UK and figures from South Africa and Denmark.
GETS SAFER: Director of Studies Frode Forland at FHI says they are getting more and more grounds for saying that the omicron variant is less serious.
Photo: Håkon Mosvold Larsen / NTB
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Awaiting wave of infection
– We estimate it to be a third or half as serious as delta.
At the same time, it is more contagious than its predecessors. FHI therefore expects a significant wave of infections in the coming weeks and a significant burden on the health service.
On Wednesday, a daily record was set for the number of registered infected people almost 8000 confirmed cases. Forland says FHI expects to see the peak of the infection wave at the end of January.
The majority of inpatients are unvaccinated
Last week, 54 percent of those admitted with covid-19, and where the vaccination status is known, were unvaccinated.
Forland believes the figure shows that many would not have been hospitalized if they had been vaccinated.
The unvaccinated who are hospitalized are to a large extent much younger than the fully vaccinated. While the fully vaccinated who are hospitalized are largely ill or frail from before.
Among the unvaccinated, there is a large proportion of men with a country of birth outside Norway.
According to FHI, there has been an increase in admissions among people in the age group 30–44 years.
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