“ The reasons for the aberration in Israel’s figures have been listed several times.”
I thought I was paying attention, but apparently have missed these reasons.
Could you please provide a short summary?
Israel began innoculating earlier and on a larger scale, relatively speaking, than most other places, and therefore now appear to be more subject to the waning in effectiveness, possibly, of the vaccines.
Also, they began with the oldest people, as we did, and these people tended to be wealthier and traveled more. There was probably more social interaction. It is only very recently that we have started seeing breakthroughs, so they had no way of knowing the danger of too-vigorous social interaction among the vaccinated, as we do now.
The delta variant also hit them first, since at first no one knew it was so much more severe. In essence, they are acting as the “shock troops” in this.
And most important, in my estimation, is the fact that they have a high vaccination rate and that will mathematically cause the proportion of breakthrough cases among the vaccinated to increase. The pool of unvaccinated is constantly being reduced, but the vaccinated are always considered vaccinated and so that pool is never reduced, and in fact keeps growing. Thus we have the statistic of more vaccinated getting sick than unvaccinated as time goes by. It’s just a mathematical/statistical result. Presumably, that will happen here as well.
I think there was another reason but I tried to find my two original posts on this and couldn’t find them. Oh yes, they used Pfizer only, and recently some have said Moderna seems stronger against the delta variant. There may be other reasons.