– The pandemic is over for most of us

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– For the well-vaccinated, infection will be associated with very little risk. At the same time, if we get a lot of infection in society and an overload on the health care system of people in risk groups, then it affects the rest of us as well. But in the main, fully vaccinated people do not have to be so worried about infection, says immunologist and vaccine researcher Gunnveig Grødeland at the University of Oslo to NRK.

If the health service has the capacity to treat those who become seriously ill, she believes that it should be possible to greatly facilitate the measures.

– For most people, the pandemic is over, the vaccine researcher believes.

Støre still warns

Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre disagrees with Grødeland.

– Do you know what, I disagree with exactly that statement. We have an infection that can probably increase sharply, says Jonas Gahr Støre (Labor) to NRK.

The Prime Minister explains it as follows:

– If it is half as dangerous, but twice as contagious, then we can get very many sick at the same time, many of them seriously. Then we get a problem in the health care system. And it affects us all. And then we must take into account high sickness absence that can affect important parts of society.

FHI: Omikron is less dangerous

FHI stated on Wednesday that it can be established with a high degree of probability that omicron causes around a third or half as serious a disease as the delta variant.

The reports please Health Director Bjørn Guldvog, who emphasizes that the disease will be mild for most people who have been vaccinated with two or three doses.

– But if very many are infected at the same time, and we can be even if we are fully vaccinated, then some will become seriously ill and need hospitalization. And if there are very many of them, it can overload the health service, Guldvog points out.