Highly Vaccinated Israel Is Seeing A Dramatic Surge In New COVID Cases. Here's Why
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Israel was the first country on Earth to fully vaccinate a majority of its citizens against COVID-19. Now it has one of the world's highest daily infection rates — an average of nearly 7,500 confirmed cases a day, double what it was two weeks ago. Nearly one in every 150 people in Israel today has the virus.
Health officials, and then Pfizer, said their data showed a dip in the vaccine's protection around six months after receiving the second shot.
The good news is that among Israel's serious infections on Thursday of this week, according to Health Ministry data, the rate of serious cases among unvaccinated people over age 60 (178.7 per 100,000) was nine times more than the rate among fully vaccinated people of the same age category, and the rate of serious cases among unvaccinated people in the under-60 crowd (3.2 per 100,000) was a little more than double the rate among vaccinated people in that age bracket.
so the vaccines still offers some protections
The news isn't all bad, but we need to be aware and still practice protections like wearing a face mask and social distancing. A third booster may be recommended. We will need to see how this issue is addresssd.
Stay Safe.
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Although they were earliest to the game Israel plateaued. Who are the vaccine reluctant? Orthodox Jews, Fundamentalist Muslims and Christians. What a surprise! The US was doing great and basically slowed down once they hit 50%. Canada who were late to the game, just hit 70% because they haven't let the religious right call the shots.