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Coronavirus: Who are Israel's seriously ill patients?
[JPost] - As of Thursday morning, there were some 250 COVID-19 patients in serious condition. What are their ages and what is their vaccination status?About 210 of them are individuals over the age of 60. Of those, 153 were fully vaccinated, seven were in the process of getting fully immunized and 50 were not vaccinated. Of the 40 patients in serious condition aged under 60, however, only nine were fully inoculated, one was partially vaccinated and 30 had not received any vaccine. And, I'll bet you that among the seriously ill vaccinated majority didn't get the third shot in time.
[IsraelTimes] Expert advising government says morbidity declining faster than recently predicted; relaxed quarantine rules for those immunized against COVID take effect. The Health Ministry on Friday reported 11,210 new coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)  ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...infections the day before, as serious cases continued declining amid a national campaign to administer vaccine booster shots.
Despite surging infections, serious cases have begun falling since peaking at 753 on Sunday, with the Health Ministry reporting 667 people at death's door from COVID-19 complications as of Friday morning. The positive test rate Thursday was 8.43 percent, the highest its been during the current wave of morbidity. The corpse count stood at 7,122, with 13 fatalities recorded Thursday. The Health Ministry also reported 6,005,150 people have received at least one vaccine dose and 5,501,924 have gotten two shots. Another 2,493,222 have been administered a third dose. "Morbidity is continuing to decline even faster than the scenario we presented two weeks ago. Hopefully it will continue like this," Eran Segal, a Weizmann Institute computational biologist who is a top government adviser on COVID, wrote on Twitter. Segal attributed the record levels of daily infections to increased testing of children around the start of the school year, which began Wednesday. Also Friday, new quarantine rules for arriving travelers took effect, with those now defined by the Health Ministry as immunized exempt from having to self-isolate for a week. Under the new guidelines, which were announced Sunday as the booster shots were made available to all Israelis eligible to be vaccinated, anyone who received a third dose at least a week before only has to quarantine for a day or upon receiving a negative test result. The exemption also applies to those who have had their second vaccine dose within the last six months or those who recovered from COVID in the past half year. Following the six months, anyone who recovered must receive a vaccine shot to continue to be exempt from quarantine. The relaxed quarantine rules do not apply to travelers coming from "red" countries with high infection rates, where Israelis are currently barred from visiting without special permission. Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-09-03 |
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