Emphasis mine.
archive.today • Denmark Decided COVID Isn't a Critical Threat - The Atlantic
"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 defends the decision. Because of falling ICU admissions and shorter hospital stays, he said, COVID is no longer a socially critical sickness in Denmark.
The state department narrative is that it's the new normal and of course media are parroting it
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/03/white-house-omicron-next-phase-pandemic-00005033