{"id":1183132,"date":"2022-01-03T11:19:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T16:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1183132"},"modified":"2022-01-03T11:19:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T16:19:45","slug":"omicron-evades-immunity-better-than-delta-danish-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/omicron-evades-immunity-better-than-delta-danish-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Omicron Evades Immunity Better Than Delta, Danish Study Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fomicron-evades-immunity-better-than-delta-danish-study-finds%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1183132&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The quickly spreading Omicron variant is better at slipping past the immunity delivered by vaccines than the Delta variant, according to a new report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvestigating nearly 12,000 Danish households in mid-December, the scientists found that Omicron was 2.7 to 3.7 times more infectious than the Delta variant among vaccinated Danes,\u201d Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/healthcare-pharmaceuticals\/omicron-evades-immunity-better-than-delta-danish-study-finds-2022-01-03\/\">reported<\/a>, citing a Danish study published last week.<\/p>\n<p>The study, conducted by researchers at University of Copenhagen, Statistics Denmark and Statens Serum Institut (SSI), suggested that the Omicron variant spreads more quickly because it can evade immunity delivered by vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur findings confirm that the rapid spread of the Omicron (variant) primarily can be ascribed to the immune evasiveness rather than an inherent increase in the basic transmissibility,\u201d the study said.<\/p>\n<p>The study also found that \u201cbooster-vaccinated people are less likely to transmit the virus, regardless of the variant, than the unvaccinated,\u201d Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<p>Tyra Grove Krause, Denmark\u2019s chief epidemiologist and SSI\u2019s technical director, said on Danish TV 2 that a new study from Denmark\u2019s State Serum Institute found that the risk of winding up in the hospital with Omicron is half that seen with the previous Delta variant. She also said that like the emergence of the variant in South Africa, cases will rise, then quickly fall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we will have that in the next two months, and then I hope the infection will start to subside and we get our normal lives back,\u201d she said on Monday,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10364503\/Denmark-health-chief-says-Omicron-bringing-END-pandemic.html\">according<\/a>&nbsp;to the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOmicron will peak at the end of January, and in February we will see declining infection pressure and a decreasing pressure on the health care system,\u201d she said. \u201cBut we have to make an effort in January, because it will be hard to get through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And she said that once Omicron becomes the dominant strain of the virus, the world will be better off. \u201cOmicron is here to stay, and it will provide some massive spread of infection in the coming month. When it\u2019s over, we\u2019re in a better place than we were before,\u201d the study said.<\/p>\n<p>Krause said that the highly communicable Omicron variant appears to be milder, which means more people will catch it, have less serious symptoms \u2014 and then be immune. That could begin to move the world toward herd immunity.<\/p>\n<p>Her comments mirror those of top U.S. immunologist Dr. Anthony Fauci, who&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/thisweek\">appeared<\/a> Sunday on ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week With George Stephanopoulos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the things that we hope for, George, is that this thing will peak after a period of a few weeks and turn around. We have seen that happen in South Africa, where they had a major surge, but, as quickly as the surge went up, it turned around,\u201d Fauci said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut what about the evidence that Omicron leads to less serious infection, less serious illness?\u201d Stephanopoulos asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, there\u2019s accumulating evidence, George, that that is the case.&nbsp;We first got inkling of that in South Africa. When one looked at the relationship and the ratio between hospitalizations and cases, it was lower, the duration of hospital stay was lower, the requirements for oxygen was lower. We\u2019re seeing a bit of that, not as pronounced, in the U.K., but certainly that trend. And if you look here at the United States, we don\u2019t want to get complacent at all, and you don\u2019t want to jump to a positive conclusion, because it\u2019s still early,\u201d Fauci said.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the Africa Health Research Institute in Durban last month conducted a small study that found people infected with Omicron \u2014 and especially those who have been fully vaccinated \u2014 developed a higher immunity to Delta.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe research, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, involved 15 vaccinated and unvaccinated Omicron patients in South Africa,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-12-28\/world-hits-record-daily-covid-cases-as-omicron-mars-christmas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according<\/a>&nbsp;to Bloomberg News, which noted that two were excluded because they didn\u2019t detectably neutralize Omicron,\u201d the New York Post&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/12\/28\/south-africa-study-suggests-omicron-infection-could-boost-immunity\/\">reported<\/a>. \u201cThe authors, led by Alex Sigal and Khadija Khan, found that while the neutralization of Omicron increased 14-fold over 14 days after the enrollment, there also was a 4.4-fold increase in neutralization of the Delta variant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent, and ran the Drudge Report from 2010 to 2015. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The quickly spreading Omicron variant is better at slipping past the immunity delivered by vaccines than the Delta variant, according to a new report. \u201cInvestigating nearly 12,000 Danish households in mid-December, the scientists found that Omicron was 2.7 to 3.7 times more infectious than the Delta variant among vaccinated Danes,\u201d Reuters reported, citing a Danish &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1183132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1183132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}