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Denmark strikes new autumn record for Covid patients

Denmark now has more people in hospital with coronavirus than at any time in more than six months, the country's infectious diseases agency SSI said in a statement on Saturday.

Denmark strikes new autumn record for Covid patients
Hvidovre Hospital outside Copenhagen prepares for the first Coronavirus patients in January. Photo: Ida Marie Odgaard/Ritzau Scanpix
The country now has 243 patients in hospital, of which 41 are being treated in intensive care, and 30 on a ventilator, the agency revealed on its Covid-19 dashboard
 
That is the most since May 4th, and seven more than were being treated on Friday. 
 
The number being treated in hospital has been climbing steadily, with 102 patients at the start of October and 147 at the start of November. 
 
The institute also reported that 1,078 people had tested positive for coronavirus since Friday. 

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  1. Perhaps the author could provide some data on these people in hospital. Age, health, weight…then we could turn down the alarmism.

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Public Health Agency recommends two Covid doses next year for elderly

Sweden's Public Health Agency is recommending that those above the age of 80 should receive two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine a year, once in the spring and once in the autumn, as it shifts towards a longer-term strategy for the virus.

Public Health Agency recommends two Covid doses next year for elderly

In a new recommendation, the agency said that those living in elderly care centres, and those above the age of 80 should from March 1st receive two vaccinations a year, with a six month gap between doses. 

“Elderly people develop a somewhat worse immune defence after vaccination and immunity wanes faster than among young and healthy people,” the agency said. “That means that elderly people have a greater need of booster doses than younger ones. The Swedish Public Health Agency considers, based on the current knowledge, that it will be important even going into the future to have booster doses for the elderly and people in risk groups.” 

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People between the ages of 65 and 79 years old and young people with risk factors, such as obesity, diabetes, poor kidney function or high blood pressure, are recommended to take one additional dose per year.

The new vaccination recommendation, which will start to apply from March 1st next year, is only for 2023, Johanna Rubin, the investigator in the agency’s vaccination programme unit, explained. 

She said too much was still unclear about how long protection from vaccination lasted to institute a permanent programme.

“This recommendation applies to 2023. There is not really an abundance of data on how long protection lasts after a booster dose, of course, but this is what we can say for now,” she told the TT newswire. 

It was likely, however, that elderly people would end up being given an annual dose to protect them from any new variants, as has long been the case with influenza.

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