T. Belman.. I am quite prepared to accept the use of the third booster for the elderly. But there is no excuse for not using Invermectin and Hydroxychloroquine as prophylactic and early treatment. People should have the choice.
The Health Ministry’s director-general, Prof. Nachman Ash, says he’s ‘cautiously optimistic’ as the number of COVID patients hits a five-month high
HAARETZ Aug. 15, 2021 9:38 AM
The Health Ministry director-general said Sunday he expects Israel’s pioneering COVID booster shot campaign to stop a rise in serious cases “over the next week”, which have been steadily going up since late July amid the spread of the delta variant, raising concerns the health system may be nearing full capacity.
Meanwhile, according to Health Ministry figures released on Sunday, there are currently 524 patients in serious condition, the highest figure since mid-March. A vast majority of them, the data shows, are not fully vaccinated.
The rate of positive tests is now at 5.38 percent, also the highest figure reported since late February. There are currently 49,608 confirmed active cases in Israel, 4,145 of them reported on Saturday.
Prof. Nachman Ash told 103FM radio he was “watching the data with concern. The figures are expected to go up. We truly hope to see the effect of the third vaccine (dose) in curbing the upward trend in the number of patients in serious condition, but the number of new confirmed cases will surely keep going up.”
Asked whether he thinks another lockdown is needed to curb the rise in new cases, Ash said: “I think we should wait to see the effects of the third vaccine. I hope it reduces the number of serious cases, and the next few days will tell.”
In the past two weeks Israel has been offering a third dose of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine to people aged 60 and up, last week expanding the inoculation drive to Israelis 50 and up, as well as health workers, prisoners and prison staff, and other groups considered at a higher risk.
According to the latest figures issued by the Health Ministry, more than 866,000 people received a third dose, representing more than half of Israelis 60 and up.
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5.9 percent of Israelis aged 50-59 have received a booster shot since Israel’s vaccination drive was expanded on Friday to include them too.
“We have initial information about the influence of the third dose (in preventing) infection,” Ash said, giving “an initial estimate” of reducing the number of new cases by 50 percent.
He added hospitals are overburdened, “but not only because of the coronavirus,” stressing “we are still at the stage we can provide the best care possible.” Ash called for “cautious optimism,” saying he hopes that “what we are doing will bring serious cases down.”
Some experts have raised doubts about this strategy, arguing there is insufficient data regarding the effectiveness of the third dose.
Israel launched its booster shot campaign about two weeks before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized on Thursday a booster dose for people with compromised immune systems.
A model prepared by Prof. Eran Segal from the Weizmann Institute and presented at a cabinet meeting last week suggested that a third dose administered to people aged 40 and up would reduce the daily number of infections by 10,000. If the third dose was given only to people over 60, it claimed, there would be more than 20,000 confirmed infected people by the end of September. If the booster was given to people over 40, there would be 10,000 infections a day.
Israel was the first country to administer a third dose of the vaccine at a large scale, but a handful of other countries have since followed its lead.
The move has raised calls for desisting, for reasons other than its effectiveness.
The head of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, called for stopping the administration of a booster shot, arguing that it was unacceptable that countries with high vaccination rates would administer a third dose while other countries suffer a surge of infections and deaths due to low vaccination rates.
From Patrick Byrne on Telegram
The death rate has continued to skyrocket since the 3rd shot was begun. 4 days ago there were 24 people who died. The last time there were 24 deaths in Israel associated with Covid disease was Feb 21. This is terrible.
PLEASE WATCH THIS VIDEO BEFORE IT IS WIPED!!
This is a very important video that everyone needs too watch immediately. The video has already been taken down, but has been placed on facebook. Please watch it before it is gone again – it is specifically related to marked increase in myocarditis(83% in young women and 25% across all populations) in Israel associated with the vaccines. The speaker was involved in a study with the official Israeli Ministry of Health where they used data from 2019,2020, and first half of 2021 to look for trends associated with emergency medical calls in Israel. They found that calls associated with cardiac arrest to have an “unexplained dramatic increase” in 2021 by 25% overall, but in women ages 20-29 it increased by 83% and these increases were found to have a statistical coordination with the vaccine rollout in this age group – “a very very striking correlation” between the heart attack EMS calls and the vaccine being administered to this same age group. There is a increase in heart attack EMS calls with this age group when this age group was first vaccinated, and then the afterwards, the EMS call went back down and then when Israel administered the vaccines to people who recovered from the covid disease, there was a second increase in the heart attack EMS calls. He has called for an investigation to find out specifically when these people were vaccinated to demonstrate for cetain that there is or is not an association with the vaccines, but after sending the report to ministry of health twice he has not recieved any response. He has other issues that are significant with children as well. I think he is speaking to the same group of rabbis that Zelenko spoke to in his now infamous video.
The most important part of the video starts at 15min, but watch all of it if possible.
https://www.facebook.com/ella.nave/videos/672818700298285/
Don’t believe anything you read in Haaretz.
This is an example of selective and misleading reporting.
524 “seriously ill” patients is not evidence of a crisis in a country with a population of over eight million. How many people are “seriously ill” from diseases other the corona virus?
If hospitals are overburdened “not only because of coronavirus,”
what are the other reasons why they are “overburdened?” and just what to they mean by “overburdened. How many empty beds and ICU’s are there in Israeli hospitals? If we are “still at the stage where we can provide the best care possible” how does he know that will cease to be the case in the near future? Has Israel ever failed to provide “the best care possible” for the overwhelming majority of sick people, both in hospitals and at home?
As for the projections that there will be “10,000 “ or “20,000” infections in the near future, similar projections have been made by British and American “experts” since the beginning of the supposed pandemic, and have all been proven wrong.
To me, it seems clear that medical “experts” and politicians have been “hyping” the cv2-19 epidemic for the past 18 months in order to purchase as many vaccines as possible and thereby enrich the pharmaceutical companies. Israeli citizens own significant shares in Pfizer, and I believe Moderna as well. And the Israeli government has paid these and other pharmaceutical companies outrageously high prices for the vaccines.
And all this has me wondering whether the deaths attributed to the Covid virus were actually caused by the Vaccine which caused cytokine storms to destroy immune systems.
Naturally,nothing of this will be mentioned on a death certificate,only that the virus caused the death!
The Melodrama is reaching the point where the only thing missing in the show is the popcorn.
To listen to the hysteria from some of the establishment types
One could believe that the problems is not the Covid virus.
That it was a new outbreak of Small Pox or the ‘Black Death’.
The government leaders would do better by leaving the government employ & becoming movie actors instead!
The basic truth is that India stopped using vaccines & started
using Ivermectin instead & this shut down the virus almost completely!
There is a whole host of nations that didn’t go with vaccines but instead used Ivermectin &/Or Hydroxychloroquine very successfully.
The bald faced liars in the Israeli Estblishment cannot be that stupid as to not know all of this!
@Ted
Exactly this, but also, the medical staff should have the freedom of exercising their expertise in developing what is known as Good Medical Practices – where the medical benefits and health needs of a patient are the guideposts that dictate treatment plans and strategies to serve their patients rather than political considerations or Pharmaceutical endorsements. The Standard of Care has never been so badly betrayed by enforcing political objectives as medical guidance.