Israel Sees Record-High Daily Infections, Hints at Fourth Vaccine Dose

Highly vaccinated Israel recorded the highest number of daily CCP virus infections per capita this week as the country’s health ministry announced that on average, more than 10,700 new COVID-19 cases are being reported each day.

Health Ministry Director-General Nachman Ash said during a video call on Sept. 14 that the new figures are “a record that did not exist in the previous waves,” The Times of Israel reported.

“A week ago we were in a clear downward trend—in recent days we’ve been seeing that decline stop, and the virus reproduction number is [again] above 1,” Ash said. Values “above 1” indicate that the number of cases is increasing, while “below 1” means it’s shrinking.

Although positive cases are on the rise again, people who fell seriously ill from COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, declined compared to the numbers of previous weeks. Ash noted that on average, people who fell seriously ill increased daily by around 70 to 80 new patients.

Israel, which has mainly used the Pfizer Inc.-BioNTech vaccine, has so far fully inoculated about 5.56 million people, or 61.45 percent, according to data by Johns Hopkins University & Medicine.

Last week, Ash said the number of people who have not received any vaccine dose yet has fallen to less than one million. Israel has a population of 9.3 million people.

The country began offering COVID-19 booster shots to children as young as 12 on Aug. 29, and Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said a campaign that began in July among seniors has slowed a rise in severe illness caused by the Delta variant. Currently, about 2.7 million Israelis have accepted the booster vaccine.

COVID appears to have a 99.75% survival rate for infected people overall, and even higher in children. Almost certainly, trying to keep it from spreading, when containing it imposes an exceptionally high economic cost, is a terrible strategy.

Plan A: I wonder when red states will start holding COVID parties. We used to have them for chicken pox, to get that over with when kids were young and the disease would be milder. I suspect they will make a comeback, but this time COVID.

Plan B: Democrats like to pretend General Washington vaccinated his troops. He didn't. He intentionally infected them with a known mild strain of smallpox so they would not be susceptible to the disease once they were in the field. Perhaps instead of looking for new COVID strains to panic over, we should be looking for a mild COVID strain to share with everyone.

Democrats will reject both plans because I am missing the point.

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