Israel’s Covid Surge Shows The World What’s Coming Next

Israel, once a front runner in the global race to go from Covid-19, is now one of the largest pandemic hot spots in the world.

The country that once predicted was the first to vaccinate all its population had the highest per capita burden of any part of the week until September 4, according to the figures compiled by Johns Hopkins University. Its inoculation rate in global latency, meanwhile, has fallen by the league table.

The 9 million nation became the case of the test to reopen society and the economy in April, when a large part of Europe and the United States were still in some way of blocking. However, Israel now shows how the calculation is changing in places where progress was faster. It is no longer about whether people get Coronavirus, but also what they obtain it and guarantee that vaccines continue to work as the highly infectious delta variant threatens to undermine immunity.

More recently, he has led the way when it comes to vaccinating children and deploying a reinforcement shot from the Pfizer-Biontech vaccine after the investigation suggested a reduced efficiency over time. Around 100,000 Israelis are inviting every day, the vast majority of them with a third shot.

“If you can keep life without blocking, and avoid a large number of hospitalizations and death, then this is what life seems with Covid,” said Eyal Leshem, a professor specialized in infectious diseases at the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Ha- Shomer

Since April, Israel has fallen first to 33nd in the Bloomberg vaccine tracker of populations considered completely vaccinated. The Plateau program in the middle of the hesitation of some in the Jewish and Arab communities orthodox. About 61% of Israelis have been given two doses, lower than in European laggards at the beginning of the year such as France and Spain.

After the spread of the Delta variant during the summer, Israel has seen that the cases are uploaded, reaching a historical maximum of 11,316 cases daily on September 2. The number of people who fall seriously ill and being hospitalized, however, has increased less than that. He did it during the last wave of Coronavirus, reaching his point at 751 at the end of August, compared to 1.183 in mid-January. The trend is now downwards.

Infections jumped due to the prevalence of cases among non-vaccinated, especially children. There were also the so-called advance infections in those who have been vaccinated, and the fall in the effectiveness of vaccines.

That said, unvaccinated people represent more than 10 times more serious cases than those who have received two doses, which shows that even with the decrease in immunity, the shots are providing protection.

For public health officials and politicians, the last chapter of the pandemic is to concentrate on ensuring that older people are more at risk, continue to protect themselves, while cases are increasing among children. The importance of this impulse accumulates by the return of millions of children to schools last week, and the Jewish New Year this week.

Epidemiologists say that cases between the more than 30 years are already decreasing thanks to reinforcements and restrictions on bars and restaurants to completely vaccinated vaccination. The highest rate of new cases in recent weeks is among children under 12, according to Ran Balicier, president of the Advisory Panel of Experts to the Government. There is also a record level of tests.

“The immunity of wanings is a real challenge that all countries should prepare a contingency plan to address,” said Balicer, who is also the Director of Innovation for the Israeli Health Maintenance Organization Clalit. The data that comes from Israel in the coming weeks will allow the world to evaluate the effectiveness of the reinforcement shooting program, he said.

As of September 6, at least 2.6 million people in Israelasii 28% of the population now have the reinforcement vaccine from the Pfizer-Biontech vaccine, according to the Israeli Ministry of Health. This rises at least 64% for people in brackets over 60 years. Significantly, Booster’s shot is also available for anyone over 12 months vaccinated at least five months.