Look what I just found!:
It’s the English Translation of a December 21st report from the Danish Government’s Statens Serum Institut.
Here’s the most relevant table:
What does this table tell you? Of the 17,767 diagnosed Omicron cases in Denmark on December 21st, 2021, more than 90% were single, double, or triple vaccinated.
At 8.5%, the percentage of unvaccinated Omicron cases it was clearly not the driver of the pandemic. It’s also pretty close to the percentage of unvaccinated in the age 12 and over population of Denmark. (Denmark is now measuring its vaccination rate on the entire population, so it’s hard to get a precise percentage for the unvaccinated over age 12.)
There’s also an amazing side note on this chart: 76.2% of those infected with other variants were also single, double or triple vaccinated. If this data is reflective of what’s going on in other places, what we are seeing now is a pandemic of the vaccinated.
Perhaps we need new mandates. Given their elevated risk of infection with all COVID variants, but most especially the Omicron variant, perhaps we should be restricting the vaccinated from high risk activities such as travel, going to sporting events and concerts, and eating at restaurants. That’s what the science says we should do!
The information that being fully vaccinated provides precisely ZERO protection against becoming infected with the Omicron Variant should be front-page news in every paper in the country.
I passed on this information Sunday, December 26th, to the Victoria Times Colonist, the Vancouver Sun, the Calgary Herald, The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the National Post, The Ottawa Citizen and the Montreal Gazette. Also to the CBC, CTV and Global News Networks. If any of those news outlets fail to cover this important story by December 28th, I think you can safely assume that journalists no longer work there.
PS: At this point, I don’t think the data is saying that the unvaccinated have the same risk of catching Omicron as the vaccinated. I suspect that the unvaccinated are showing relatively low rates of infection primarily because they are a) younger and b) often are restricted by vaccine mandates from high-risk behaviours like travel or going to concerts. That said, it is abundantly clear that the large majority of those catching and spreading Omicron are fully vaccinated. Governments have repeated so often the mantra that vaccination means you’re less likely to get hospitalized or die, I suspect a great many fully vaccinated Canadians believe they are also less likely to catch or spread Omicron. This data tells us clearly, that is not true.
PPS: If you haven't guessed, I'm joking about mandates for the vaccinated. That said, they would actually make as much scientific sense as vaccine mandates for the unvaccinated at this point in the pandemic, if the purpose of such mandates was to actually to control the spread of Omicron rather than to bully the unvaccinated into getting vaccinated.
I have been on a vacation, and have missed countless posts of information.
This is to the point that now coming back, I'm confused on how the omicron variant is relevant now...
After looking at a couple of posts, I have realized, me getting my first dose a while ago as my boss demanded it, was useless. There is 0 reasons for vaccines, to the point Bonnie Henry has even slightly touched base on it... That's how you know its bad !
10 to 1 no one picks it up, prints it, or follows it. Let all of us avid readers know what happens, please. that's a story in itself.