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| 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 |
| 2021-09-03 |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 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. |
| Posted by:Angstrom |
| #9 Fellows grandson is currently paralyzed from the neck down. He said they call it AMS or Guillain-Barre now. Without infection by the the polio virus, Dale, the result, though it may look the same, is not polio. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2021-09-03 20:47 |
| #8 Depending on your genetic, the vaccine sets the stage for ADE, exactly as intended. |
| Posted by: Zebulon de Medici9635 2021-09-03 17:33 |
| #7 Polio is still here. They simply call it other names. Fellows grandson is currently paralyzed from the neck down. He said they call it AMS or Guillain-Barre now. You don't know what to believe anymore. Fellows wife left him of 30 years. Despondent he shoots himself dead. DX Covid. Wife collected over $200,000 in life insurance with that DX. Big win for that DX also for medical system, $38,000 now?. Well a lot anyway. |
| Posted by: Dale 2021-09-03 10:48 |
| #6 There is still a lot of doubt as to whether the current vaccines are effective against c19. A person can still contract c19 and become ill, maybe die. The vaccines require a booster after six months, and maybe more boosters, and you can still become ill. There are questions about the safety and side effects of the vaccines. There is no long term data on the c19 vaccines. |
| Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 2021-09-03 10:41 |
| #5 ^Can't have herd immunity WITHOUT long term immune memory. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-09-03 08:29 |
| #3 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 That's # of positive tests. COVID in Israel: Daily Cases Hit New Record, but Serious Cases Decline |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-09-03 02:07 |
| #2 I dunno. We kicked smallpox in its microbial groin. And polio would be pretty much gone if it weren't for some Islamic countries where it manages to hang on. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2021-09-03 01:31 |
| #1 So far man has been unable to eradicate a virus.... |
| Posted by: The Traveling Unvaxed 2021-09-03 00:27 |