In recent weeks, Denmark has broken infection records after infection records with well over 20,000 daily cases.
But it is far from the whole picture
– It is the dark numbers that keep the epidemic going. I can not set exact percentages, but it is probably not entirely wrong to say that the dark number increases in proportion to the number who test positive, says specialist in clinical microbiology and professor at the University of Southern Denmark Jens Kjølseth Møller to the Danish newspaper BT.
Professor Thomas Benfield at the Department of Infectious Diseases at the hospital in Hvidovre estimates that around half of the cases of infection are detected.
– Can be the beginning of the end
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– We have given up on stopping widespread infection here at home. And with the daily infection numbers we now see, very many will be infected. At the same time, many have been vaccinated and have received the booster dose, so at some point we will see the infection numbers fall, as most people who are typically infected have become immune, Benfield tells the newspaper.
When infection rates begin to fall in the country, however, it is difficult to say.
– If omikron establishes itself as the dominant variant in the long term, then one can hope that this is the beginning of the end of the pandemic, but there can always be a new variant that outperforms it, and then we are in a new situation, he says to BT.
Lack of test: – Very worried
Tracks record infection
Sweden has also recently seen an increase in infection rates. Professor Tove Fall at the University of Uppsala thinks one can see very high infection rates in the coming weeks.
– If the development in Sweden follows what we see in Denmark and in other countries, we can expect a very high spread of infection at the beginning of 2022, says Fall to Swedish Currently.
– In Denmark, it is now seen that there are many more confirmed cases than during previous waves. So much disease and so many new cases are going to affect us in several ways. Some of those ways can be difficult to predict, says Fall.
– Can be a match
Danske Møller tells BT that covid can become a seasonal disease.
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– The coronavirus can end up being a battle that comes back year after year, but which gives few symptoms. You may also have to accept that it comes back, as we see with the flu, which for some years means hospitalizations and deaths, says Møller.
Swedish Fall hopes 2022 will be better than 2021.
– I hope the peaks will be milder and that we get longer quiet periods between them. I feel pretty confident that it will look better towards the summer season, but then we will see how it will be in the autumn, she says.
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