T. Belman. Although the numbers show that a high percentage of those infected were vaccinated, a low percentage of serious cases were vaccinated.
6 million Israelis were vaccinated at a cost of $62 each for the vaccine ($372 million). To this must be added the cost of personnel to administer the vaccine. All things considered, was it a good investment? What difference did it make?
Of the 143 hospitalized patients, 58% were vaccinated, 39% were not at all, and 3% were partially vaccinated.
By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN, JPOST JULY 21, 2021
A technician collects swab samples for COVID-19, at a testing center run by the Tel Aviv municipality in cooperation with Tel haShomer hospital, at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, on July 20, 2021.
Some 143 Israelis were hospitalized with COVID-19 as of Wednesday at 12 p.m., according to the Health Ministry. Fifty-eight percent of them were vaccinated, 39% were not and 3% were partially vaccinated, meaning they had taken one dose or a full week had not passed since their second shot.
Only one patient was a child. Five were pregnant women or women who recently gave birth.
Of the country’s 64 serious patients, including 17 in critical condition, there were 12 who were being invasively ventilated. However, while the percentage of vaccinated cases was high, the percentage of those who require invasive treatment was low: Only three fully vaccinated people were being invasively ventilated.
Also, only two people were connected to an ECMO external oxygenation machine, and neither of them were vaccinated.
Although the number of serious patients is on the rise – with 154 new ones this month compared to only 31 new ones in May and 17 in June – there were 972 new serious cases last July.
Some 18,469 Israelis have been listed in serious or critical condition since the start of the pandemic.
Thirty of the 143 hospitalized patients were in moderate condition, and 49 in mild condition.
How many people have died?
Since the start of the coronavirus crisis, 6,452 Israelis have died of the disease. The deadliest month was January 2021, when 1,445 Israelis died.
So far this month, 20 people have died of the virus, compared to nine people last month and 237 in July 2020.
Fifteen of the 20 people who died this month were fully vaccinated.
@stevenl
That is a good question. The testing really corrupts all of this, but let’s ignore the fact that the positive test does not mean that you have or ever had the disease. In the US, there was a lot, a whole lot, of cases last year that were masqueraded as covid deaths when the patient was found to have died of some other very specific cause, such as a car accident, which is ridiculous of course. Still, CDC claimed they were going to address this late last year. I recently, about 2 months ago, heard that someone was going thru Covid deaths in CA, and found many fake Covid deaths, but I never heard anything more about it. So the question is open to interpretation. The Covid deaths count last year is associated with large financial benefits by hospitals, ie they were paid between $13,000 and $39,000 per Covid patient which is a massive financial motivation to mislabel death certificates. I believe this payment scheme was changed in the March 2021 bill, but I am not certain to what. There is still a massive stipend in the current bill for hospitals, but a lot of it has to do with the vaccines.
I never heard anything like this being reported in other countries, but I am curious if anyone else did.
Do the data of number of deaths distinguish “with” from “from”?
Guy Benson and Rep. Vern Buchanan(R-FL) are both vaccinated and both have tested positive for Covid disease with mild symptoms.
In the U.S., Senator Lindsey Graham says that he has tested positive for coronavirus and has gone into isolation. He says that he has flu-like symptoms. I hope that he survives, as he has been a pro-crump and anti-Biden-Harris-BLM-Antifa stalwart in the Senate. Not a man who is easily replaced. Biden’s press secretary, what’s her name, has admitted that several members of the White House staff have tested positive for the coronavirus, but she refuses to say how many or to name them, “out of respect for their privacy.” She also refused to say whether or not they were vaccinated.
It seems increasingly clear that vaccination does not insure that you won’t get sick from Covid. Perhaps it reduces the risk, but it doesn’t eliminate it.
@Bear Klein
Very encouraging to see this article today in JPOST. It is well overdue. Thanks for noting it. Your concerns about variants is a fair question, and the answer lies in the mechanism of action of the drug. It works at several points to antagonize the virus and also acts at several levels to treat the Covid disease itself, independent of the virus. This would mean that many significant mutations in the virus would be needed to overcome the actions of ivermectin, and even then ivermectin would be useful in treating the resulting disease, to some level.
Here is an extract where it lists the uses of ivermectin against the virus alone, it is a long list(don’t bother reading them each, just offering it to show the very many uses of the drug):
So there are many uses at 4 separate targets to antagonize the virus.
The more targets at which a drug can antagonize the invading virus or bacteria will result in the virus having a more difficult time overcoming the treatment.
Also the use of ivermectin has been found to have a positive effect in treatment over 60 studies, which would include multiple variants among these many studies. When there were only 55 studies, it was found that:
I will attach a review of Ivermectin, but it is quite detailed. I do not have a source that describes these matters in more general language, so I hope it might offer you some input on your question. Sorry if you find this to be info overload. Just thought you might find it helpful.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8203399/
@ Ted, see the following article which shows Ivermectin is effective as a treatment after one contacts Covid (it is a very small study however) but it DOES NOT prevent one getting it. Does it work on all the variants is a question does not answer, again the study was 89 people only.
https://www.jpost.com/health-science/israeli-scientist-says-covid-19-could-be-treated-for-under-1day-675612
Thanks for this information.
Israel agreed to pay $56 per Pfizer vaccine immunization, $28 for each of the two shots required, Channel 13 reported. ($28 each)
Last week, a European Union official told Reuters that the bloc could order 200 million units of the experimental vaccine and had negotiated to pay something less than the $19.50 that the US has already agreed to pay per shot.
The figures show that Israel would pay at least 43% more than the US or the EU for the vaccine. https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-will-reportedly-pay-more-than-us-eu-for-pfizer-coronavirus-vaccine/
Ted, the cost of the vaccine for Israel was $28 per dose. Your information is faulty. Total $56 for two doses.
If you are interested in the source material check out my comments in the prior article where you brought this mistaken information. Times of Israel was the source of my information in a November 2020 article which talks about the Israeli, US and EU costs.