Krause is vice-chairman of the Danish Statens Serum Institute, and in that capacity an important advisor to the Danish government in dealing with the corona crisis. That country is currently suffering from a new wave of infections: last Wednesday the record number of new infections was smashed, with 23,228 new cases in 24 hours – considerably more than the previous peak (16,164 cases). It was therefore the country with the most new infections compared to the total population (5.8 million inhabitants) in the world.
Still, Krause sees light on the horizon. Based on a study conducted by the Statens Serum Institute she concludes that the omicron variant is less drastic than the delta variant. “Everything indicates that omicron is milder than delta, and that the risk of ending up in hospital is half the risk,” she said in a morning program on Danish television.
Pandemic over in two months
The high infectivity of the omicron variant is even good news in that respect, according to Krause. “That will lead to a massive spread of the infection in the coming month, peaking at the end of January. That will be a difficult month. But once that is over, we will be better off than before.”
In fact, according to Krause, the entire corona pandemic could be over in two months. “I think the infection rate will start to fall in two months, and we can return to normal life by March,” she says.