Israel Is Now the World's Covid Hotspot

Cases soar despite country's trail-blazing vaccine roll-out - sparking fears other highly-vaccinated countries will be hit by another wave due to jabs' waning immunity

Israel has become the Covid capital of the world despite leading the charge on vaccines, in a clear warning sign that Britain, the US and other highly-immunised nations are still vulnerable to another wave.

Stats compiled by Oxford University-backed research team Our World in Data shows there were a record 1,892 Covid cases per million people in Israel on Wednesday — nearly 0.2 per cent of the entire population in a single day.

That was significantly higher than second worst-hit Mongolia, where the rate was 1,119 per million, and double the figures for Kosovo (980), Georgia (976) and Montenegro (909), which rounded out the top five.

The figure only looks at one day’s worth of tests and Israel’s high rate is thought to have been driven up by a huge testing push ahead of schools reopening there.

But the country has consistently reported some of the highest infection rates in the world since mid-August amid an unprecedented third wave, despite being one of the most vaccinated nations in the world.

For comparison, 522 people per million in the UK tested positive yesterday and the figure was closer to 595 in the US. It suggests protection gained from vaccines is starting to buckle in the face of the highly-transmissible Delta variant.

While Israel is seeing record case numbers in its fourth wave, the jabs are still protecting against severe illness with Covid deaths running at about half of the level of its second wave, even though fatalities have risen sharply in the last month.

Israel has been offering booster jabs to people over the age of 60 since July, and data suggests the scheme has helped to curb rising hospital admissions. The country has since expanded the top-up drive to everyone over 12 who has already had two doses.

With Israel acting as the ‘canary in the mine’, the UK has been urged to ‘stop hanging around’ and launch a mass booster jab programme to avoid a deadly wave this winter.

But the Government’s advisory panel has yet to sign off on the plans — leaving the country lagging behind Israel and the US, which is also offering third injections to everyone given two doses.

Prominent SAGE member ‘Professor Lockdown’ Neil Ferguson today said he expected a surge in cases in winter but is unsure if it will be large enough to warrant rolling back restrictions. Other experts fear the return of schools in England this week and next will cause infections to explode.



Israel has become the Covid capital of the world just months after leading the charge on vaccines, according to data that shows jab protection is waning. Stats compiled by an Oxford University-based research platform show Israel recorded 1,892 cases per million people on Wednesday — nearly 0.2 per cent of the entire population in a single day. That was significantly higher than second worst-hit Mongolia where the rate was 1,119 per million and double the figures for Kosovo (980), Georgia (976) and Montenegro (909), which rounded out the top five


https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/09/no_author/israel-is-now-the-worlds-covid-hotspot/








While Israel is seeing record case numbers, the jab is still offering protection against severe illness with Covid deaths running at about half of the level of the second wave, even though fatalities have been rising sharply since last month. There is now growing pressure for Britain to roll out a booster vaccine programme like Israel is doing



Britain's independent vaccine advisory panel, said it was waiting on more evidence that these people would benefit from another dose and claimed that the 'vast majority' of Britons still had high protection — despite the UK's cases trending in the same direction as Israel's



Israel has been offering booster jabs to people over the age of 60 since July and has managed to curb rising hospital admissions in the age group as a result. Professor Eran Segal, a mathematician at the country's Weizmann Institute, tweeted today that hospitalisations had started to fall just two weeks after the top-up campaign started. This graph shows how Covid hospitalisations have started to level off in Israel just two weeks after its booster programme began. When the drive was started hospitalisations were doubling every week. Predictions suggested this would continue (green line). But just two weeks after the jabs were given out actual hospitalisations have slowed (blue line)








https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9951117/Israel-worlds-Covid-hotspot-0-2-population-catching-yesterday.html

the fourth and the fifth dose will bring even greater protection...then the sixth and the seventh. LOLOLOL

Whats this shit

https://tsionizm.com/science-technology/2021/09/06/most-hospitalizations-in-israel-are-vaccinated-breakthough-infections-skyrocketing/

multitude. of. evidence.

Calypso Jones wrote:the fourth and the fifth dose will bring even greater protection...then the sixth and the seventh.  LOLOLOL

That's kinda' what they say about the regular so-called flu vaccines. And YET.....nobody can explain why I stopped getting them 35 to 40 years ago, and have yet ever had the flu again. Or even a cold for that matter. So, it would seem that all the natural things I do regularly seem to pay off... To hell with the artificial CRAP!

Calypso Jones wrote:https://tsionizm.com/science-technology/2021/09/06/most-hospitalizations-in-israel-are-vaccinated-breakthough-infections-skyrocketing/

multitude.  of.   evidence.

You need to analyze the stats BigC, you need to make sure you are comparing apples with apples

I am......perhaps the wapo is not

Elizabeth Theus wrote:

Calypso Jones wrote:the fourth and the fifth dose will bring even greater protection...then the sixth and the seventh.  LOLOLOL

That's kinda' what they say about the regular so-called flu vaccines.  And YET.....nobody can explain why I stopped getting them 35 to 40 years ago, and have yet ever had the flu again.  Or even a cold for that matter.  So, it would seem that all the natural things I do regularly seem to pay off...  To hell with the artificial CRAP!

@Elizabeth Theus What natural things do you do ?
I am all for doing what I can for myself.

........ Vaccination rates in Israel surged between December and March but then began to plateau after around 50 per cent of the total population, not just adults, had received two jabs.

In the six months since March, inoculation rates have been sluggish. Today only around 60 per cent of Israelis in total have had two doses leaving millions still with no protection. ..............

https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/global/israel-fighting-record-breaking-surge-in-covid19-cases-despite-high-levels-of-vaccination/news-story/3445287a9c46e8712574da2316bd3ee1

vege57 wrote:

Calypso Jones wrote:https://tsionizm.com/science-technology/2021/09/06/most-hospitalizations-in-israel-are-vaccinated-breakthough-infections-skyrocketing/

multitude.  of.   evidence.

You need to analyze the stats BigC, you need to make sure you are comparing apples with apples

This is not so good.

........... Yet boosters are unlikely to tame a Delta surge on their own, says Dvir Aran, a biomedical data scientist at Technion. In Israel, the current surge is so steep that “even if you get two-thirds of those 60-plus [boosted], it’s just gonna give us another week, maybe 2 weeks until our hospitals are flooded.” He says it’s also critical to vaccinate those who still haven’t received their first or second doses, and to return to the masking and social distancing Israel thought it had left behind—but has begun to reinstate. ............

https://www.science.org/news/2021/08/grim-warning-israel-vaccination-blunts-does-not-defeat-delta

I t appears Israel got to 50% vaccination rate then slowed.
They stopped wearing masks or doing social distancing.
Still, this is about the worst news i wanted to read.