13 December

In today’s Covid news, the supposedly ‘mild’ Omicron variant. Hospitalisation rates in Denmark about the same as for other variants. Overwhelmingly the Danish being infected in the early days are 20-29, which will partly explain why it appears mild, the young tend to get less severe disease. Breakthrough infections in the fully vaccinated *and* booster vaccinated about double that for Delta. Omicron is likely going to smash us. (Delta may still too, in NSW, which has its biggest growth rate in 4 months, and is about to relax almost all restrictions, exactly as Denmark did.) The NSW and Australian governments are, again and as always, asleep at the wheel.