Kai KupferschmidtScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation.On its face, the curve of COVID-19 infections in Denmark looks reassuring enough.
A nationwide lockdown has led numbers to plummet from more than 3000 daily cases in mid-December 2020 to just a few hundred now.
But don’t be fooled. “Sure, the numbers look nice,” says Camilla Holten Møller of the Statens Serum Institute, who heads a group of experts modeling the epidemic.