Covid Surge Shows Why The World Should Be Worried
New Covid-19: Projected to be the first fully-vaccinated country, Israel has the highest per-capita covid-19 caseload today. The front-runner among the countries to beat the covid-19 pandemic, Israel is now recording over 8,182 new infections daily. With half of its population (around 177M) vaccinated against covid-19, the United States’s covid death toll hits 1500 amidst the Delta Scourge.
Home to over 9 million people, Israel had become the test center for reopening societies and economies in April 2021, when most European countries were still in some sort of lockdown. Israel’s covid surge shows how the calculus is changing in place. It is no longer just about whether or not the people are fully vaccinated. The focus has shifted to see if the shots are still working on not.
In recent reports, it has been seen that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine reduces efficacy after a specific period. Around 100,00 Israelis are getting immunised every day. A huge portion of these people gets the third dose of Covid-19 vaccines.
Since April, when the country eased the lockdown and other restrictions, it has dropped from first to 33rd in Bloomberg’s vaccine tracker. Following the spread of Deltra Variant in summer, Israel’s cases have ramped up, reaching an all-time high of 11,316 per-day cases on September 2.
The researchers say cases among people over 30s are declining due to covid-19 boosters and restrictions on bars & restaurants. The highest infection rate is among children under the age of 10-12. The wildcard to the pandemic is the reopening of schools that interrupted and changed the transmission pattern.
What Israel’s Covid Surge Teaches The World?
Israel was the first nation to fully vaccinate 85% of its population against Covid-19’s both variants. Now the country has the world’s highest infection tally — an average of around 7,500 cases per day. Almost one in every 150 people in Israel is covid infected.
Here are the five lessons learned from Israel’s covid surge.
- Immunity from boosters and vaccines reduces over time
- The delta variant broke through the vaccine’s diminishing protection
- Vaccinated people have a less severe infection
- Israel’s high (85% of its population) vaccination rate is not high enough
- Vaccination prevents the infection, but it is not foolproof
It educates that vaccination is the key to be safe. Eyal Leshem said, “a year ago, we virtually had no protection against the virus other than complete lockdown.” “Now we have a fully open complex, open marketplace, and surging economy despite over 50,000 cases per week.” The number of severe cases is low after vaccination.
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