Posted on 07/21/2021 3:52:56 PM PDT by Tipllub
Israel's battle against the delta variant of the coronavirus is expected to last many months, Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz warned on Wednesday. "We expect to see an increase in cases of infection in the coming weeks, and unfortunately also in the number of seriously ill patients," he said at a news conference.
"We understand that the coronavirus won't soon disappear from the world. Our strategy is clear – living with the coronavirus," he said, adding that members of the public will have to demonstrate personal responsibility if restrictions that would affect daily routines are to be avoided.
Israel has among the highest coronavirus vaccination rates in the world, thanks to its early procurement of large quantities of Pfizer vaccine against COVID-19, but on Wednesday, the Health Ministry announced that the country's four HMOs would be provided with vaccine produced by Massachusetts-based Moderna and that inoculations with the Moderna vaccine would begin on August 1.
The Pfizer vaccine will now only be administered to patients between the age of 12 and 18 and for second doses of the vaccine. Unlike the two doses of the Pfizer vaccine, which are administered 21 days apart, the Moderna vaccine is given 28 days apart.
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There seems to be an issue with the Pfizer vax...
Delta COVID!
Hmm - antibody dependent enhancement with Pfizer so now we move to Moderna ?
If they had let this play out instead of quarantining well people....for a year...these variants would not have time to develop.
So they’re asking people to get double vaxxed with Moderna now?!
Well they mandated my family to get the Pfizer. Now the Moderna? WTF Israel? Did you consider what Sweden did?
or they got better pricing on it
“There seems to be an issue with the Pfizer vax...”
That would explain the Jerusalem Post article where a lot of vaccinated people were hospitalized. Interesting.
My mom sent me out to sell a cow this morning. I took the cow and traded it for Moderna call options. Oh I’m sure my mom wishes I did such things.
I got the Moderna back in January and Feb.
Other than one sluggish headachey day after the second dose, and setting off the theft alarm at WalMart the first couple weeks, I have experienced no problems.
Thanks for posting.
I could see Iseral having a devoted population. As an outsider looking in I’m interested. Important to watch for both the vaccinated and unvaccinated.
“My mom sent me out to sell a cow this morning. I took the cow and traded it for Moderna call options. Oh I’m sure my mom wishes I did such things.”
?? I do not understand the comment.
I don’t either!
Go away, troll.
The emergence of variants is not a function of time, it is a function of the number of infections.
The likelihood of a viable variant seems to be on the order of one in 50 million cases.
It wouldn’t matter if those cases occurred in 18 weeks or 18 months. You would still wind up with the same number of variants circulating.
You might be able to make the case that the variants would be more likely to remain in country of origin under a laissez faire approach, but that assumes travel restrictions more robust than likely possible given the ineptness of national governments and health agencies.
And the harsh counterpoint to your hypothesis is that there would have been NO VACCINES before the pandemic ran roughshod through the entire population. Add those otherwise vaccinated folks into the case pool and you’re far more likely to see much higher case numbers and therefore more variants under such a scenario.
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