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On Friday, infection rates in Europe surpassed 100,000 in one day for the first time since the outbreak of the pandemic.
The infection is flourishing in much of the continent, but several professionals refuse to think of the virus as something that comes and goes.
– Low diffusion
The infection has also increased in Sweden in recent weeks. But according to state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell, this is not the so-called second wave in the neighboring country.
Criticized Tegnell – escaped from Sweden
– No, it is still the case that it looks very different in different parts of Sweden. Typically, a second wave is defined as one that has a large spread over larger parts of the country, Tegnell tells Expressen.
– Now there is a lot in Stockholm and Uppsala. This is in line with what we had previously thought, namely that we have a base level with low spread, but we also see an increase in local outbreaks, he says.
– Dangerous thinking
Margaret Harris of the WHO has repeatedly warned against thinking of corona infection as something that comes in waves. This is wrong and inappropriate, he recently said in an interview with ABC News.
– This idea that there would be a stop in the summer has not been constructive, and many have believed it, he says, and continues:
This is where the illegal rave party ends
– I think it comes from the idea that the coronavirus is similar to the flu, but the flu is very much a virus that is associated with the winter season and cold weather.
You don’t have covid-19, says Harris, who believes that sadly there have been many who have behaved as if the virus was disappearing this summer.
– So we’ve seen a gradual increase again since June, you think.
– A global wave
For the crown, there is only one wave, Steinar Westin, a professor of social medicine at NTNU, told Dagbladet in August.
– This with a second wave, is just something that remains from the experiences with the Spanish flu, he said at the time.
Norway is different here
Westin believes that SARS-CoV-2 has a rising global wave and that what we have seen this fall is a “predictable consequence” of the fact that we have opened society too quickly, both domestically and for tourists and Norwegians from vacation abroad.
– The so-called “second wave” that we now imagine is the pure consequence of political decisions to open up society more. There is no “necessary” new wave, Westin told Dagbladet.
FHI’s Petter Elstrøm predicted in an interview with Dagbladet in April that there would be a new wave in Norway in October / November, and claimed that there could be a third wave in the new year.
