Denmark this week lifted all Covid related restrictions, and one of the many talking points is that patients in ICU have been declining, despite cases and hospitalisations increasing.

What's not mentioned is that at the end of Dec, Denmark changed protocols for admission to ICU.
Denmark, like Sweden, now has *fewer* ICU beds overall than at the start of the Pandemic - a casualty of exhausted health care workers quitting or sick.

With the onset of Omicron, new guidelines essentially said "Do they *really* need ICU? Could you do it another ward?"
Less than 2 weeks later, the total number of patients in ICU (unfortunately OwiD does not have admissions) started to decline. Image
I'm in no position to judge the medical validity of this - it all sounds reasonable to me - but what can be said is *Denmark's ICU data is not the same as before*.

Like Sweden changing test protocols, it's important to understand if there's been any change underlying the stats.
(Thanks @Kementri for the tip!)

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Feb 3
Quite a few Danes are upset about my tweet last night about the odd phenomenon of ICU covid cases decreasing in Denmark while cases, hospitalisations, and mortality increase.
A Dane directed me to guidance issued on December 2021 that suggested that hospitals needed to consider whether patients really needed ICU before referring them, or if they could be handled in an existing ward.

It seems to me that this could be a reasonable explanation.
I've been personally attacked for this and told that no, this was only going to happen if ICU was under pressure and that didn't happen. Ends up that just 2 weeks before that guidance, this article in DagensMedicine stated there were only 10 free ICU beds in the entire country
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Jan 29
Sars-CoV-2 is a new virus. We don't know everything it does.

We do know it can, even if vaccinated -

* make you very ill
* kill you
* get in to most organs, incl. the brain
* stay there at least 18 months and...
* damage your kidneys
* damage your heart
* damage your lungs

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* damage your pancreas
* cause autoimmune disease
* cause chronic, disabling illness
* trigger diabetes
* trigger cancer
* reactivate latent viruses
* cause fertility problems
* make your penis shrink (if you have one)
* cause strokes months later

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* make you permanently lose your sense of taste and smell
* stop your lungs transferring oxygen
* stop your lungs getting rid of CO2
* stop your muscles being able to use oxygen
* damage your immune system
* cause heart attacks, months later
* and much more ...
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Jan 29
Oh fantastic! @hziaudden has now covered the problematic paper I mentioned that the long covid minimizers like Balloux and Munro etc are loving.

Thanks Hisham! Some additional comments below, but be sure to read both of Hisham's threads.

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The recruitment methods for the two groups were different. The Covid-positive group got messaged via an app typically used for official communications and was sent to *all* parents in the country with a child with a positive test history.

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The control group was sourced via a message sent through a standard school app, and sent to parents in just 5 Danish municipalities (there's 98!)

The response rate was *very* different - 44.9% vs 21.3%.

The introductory text to the surveys was not provided.
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Read 7 tweets
Jan 27
Longcovid community! Your assistance please for some research which I'd like to turn in to a more formal survey to get some data. Please share.

@long_covid @LongCOVIDEurope @LongCovidKids @Survivor_Corps @dianaberrent @Covid19Long @cov @patientled @LongCovidNews @longcovidadvoc1
1. Have you received a formal diagnosis by medical personnel? If yes, of what? (eg POTS, PASC etc). If you know the ICD-10 code(s) please provide them.

2. What tests were done and what did they show?

3. any comments you think of use?

(fine to answer in your own language!)
I'll start (fine to answer in your own language!).

1. I've seen three doctors post-covid, three diagnoses, in order. Cut and paste from the online journal (in Swedish) -

Huvuddiagnos
Observation/utredning för misstänkt allergi/atopi
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Jan 26
Let's talk about herd immunity.

But first, lets talk about herds.

Here is a herd of cows.
But if you look closely, it's not a herd of cows. It's several herds of cows. I count at least 3, and perhaps 4 or even more.
So what makes these different herds? This thing along here - a fence.
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Jan 25
@Ingrid_Helander, the "science editor" for one of Sweden's leading newspapers, @SvD apparently "liked" a tweet calling New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Adhern, "hysterical" (and not as in funny)
Well, Ingrid, here's how Sweden and New Zealand currently stand on various covid-19 metrics.

Total confirmed infections. Image
Total confirmed deaths. Image
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