Bonus - Denmark and COVID-19
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Thanks to widespread testing, vaccinations, and adherence to masking and social distancing, Denmark was able to lift most COVID restrictions in late summer. Now, with a recent uptick in cases the country considers next steps. In a bonus episode, Dr. Gunhild Waldemar, a health care advocate for the elderly in Denmark, talks with Stephanie Desmon about the country's successes, what's behind some of the regional variations in vaccinations, and lessons learned about elder care from the early days of the pandemic.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 4 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former Commissioner of Health in Baltimore City. |
| 0:20.0 | Our goal is to bring |
| 0:21.7 | scientific evidence and experience to current topics in public health through engaging interviews |
| 0:27.1 | with scientists, community leaders, policy experts, public health officials, clinicians, and more. |
| 0:32.8 | If you have ideas or questions for us to cover, please email us at public health question at jhhhu.edu. |
| 0:40.4 | That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:46.5 | Hey, public health on call listeners. This is producer Lindsay Smith-Rogers. Today, Stephanie |
| 0:51.5 | Desmond talks to Dr. Gunnilde-Vald-Valdemar, a leading healthcare advocate for the elderly in Denmark, about the COVID-19 situation there. |
| 1:00.4 | Denmark lifted all COVID restrictions in September after achieving high vaccination rates. |
| 1:05.7 | They discuss how trust in the government is behind successes there and what the future may hold now that winter is again coming. |
| 1:12.4 | Let's listen. |
| 1:13.7 | Goodhild Waldemar, thanks so much for joining me. |
| 1:16.2 | Well, thank you for inviting me. |
| 1:17.8 | So I wanted to talk to you about the COVID situation in your country of Denmark. |
| 1:23.4 | I know that vaccination rates are high. |
| 1:26.8 | I've heard as many as 80% or more of adults are vaccinated. |
| 1:32.5 | You had upwards of 95% of people, 50 and older, fully vaccinated. And this led the country in late |
| 1:39.1 | summer to ease some restrictions. Tell me why you think the country did so well back at that point. |
| 1:47.3 | Well, from my viewpoint, from the position as a leading healthcare person in Denmark, I would |
| 1:54.1 | say that the success really comes from mass testing, vaccinations, as you already mentioned, |
| 1:59.9 | a high rate, high adherence to our restrictions, |
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