Denmark Officials See No Reason to Give More COVID-19 Vaccines
Denmark Officials See No Reason to Give More COVID-19 Vaccines
COPENHAGEN, Denmark—Health authorities in Denmark said Friday that they are considering “winding down” the country’s coronavirus vaccination program in the spring and see no reason now to administer a booster dose to children or a fourth shot to any more residents at risk of severe COVID-19.
The Danish Health Authority said in a statement outlining its reasoning that the third infection wave in the European nation was waning “due to the large population immunity.”
“The very high vaccine coverage in Denmark, especially with the third shot, means that we can cope with increasing infection without getting serious illness,” the government agency said in a statement.
Last month, the Danish government said it was offering a fourth vaccine dose to older adults and other vulnerable citizens because the pandemic situation had worsened amid the spread of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus.
But a Health Authority assessment concluded that three shots had provided good protection to nursing home residents and people over age 85, and the agency decided it was unnecessary to provide them with additional shots right now.
Bolette Søborg, a unit manager and chief physician with the authority, said the approaching end of winter, when time spent indoors makes it easier for the virus to spread, is another reason to hold off on fourth doses.
Only a handful of countries worldwide have started offering fourth shots or announced plans to do so.
Denmark expanded its vaccination program to children ages 5–11 in November, when the Delta variant was dominant. Health authorities
said Friday that they were “now starting to plan to round off the current vaccination program for all target groups, including the program for children aged 5–11.”
More than 80 percent of the population has received two shots while 61.3 percent have had a booster, according to official figures.
The agency said it was looking at “winding down the entire general vaccination program later in the spring.”
“We will of course follow the epidemic closely, and we are ready to change our decision if, contrary to expectations, there is a fourth spring wave or new worrying variants this spring,” the agency statement said.
Denmark scrapped most pandemic restrictions this month after officials said they no longer considered COVID-19 “a socially critical disease.” Officials said that while Omicron is surging in the Scandinavian country, the variant was not placing a heavy burden on the health system.
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