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    How Denmark Decided COVID Isn’t a Critical Threat to Society

    The country became the first in the EU to lift all COVID restrictions despite leading the world in per capita infections.
    by Derek Thompson Feb 04, 2022 5 minutes
    Source: The Atlantic

    Updated at 12:35 p.m. ET on February 7, 2022.

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    On February 1, Denmark became the first country in the European Union to lift all pandemic restrictions. Indoor mask mandates? Gone. Vaccine passports at bars, restaurants, and stadiums? See ya. Mandatory isolation for infected individuals? Farvel.

    Reading this news, you might assume that Denmark succeeded in eliminating COVID. But its infection rate is currently higher than every other country’s in the world—except one: the South Pacific archipelago nation of Palau.

    “If you are following Denmark’s infection numbers, this seems like a very, very strange thing to do,” Michael Bang Petersen, a Danish researcher who led a global survey of COVID attitudes and advises the Danish government, told me. But Petersen

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