Health Ministry says too early to call on 5th COVID shot as cases resurge

Health Ministry officials said on Wednesday that despite a resurgence in COVID-19 morbidity throughout Israel, a fifth vaccine dose was still unnecessary.

At the end of Wednesday's meeting, epidemiologists concluded that a new vaccination campaign is currently off the table. Ministry officials said more deliberations on the matter were needed contingent on the trajectory of the disease, but they were focusing on getting the fourth vaccine dose to those who have yet to receive it. However, experts recommended reinstating a mask mandate indoors and in large gatherings in light of the recent uptick in coronavirus cases.

Furthermore, the ministry said that the standard COVID-19 vaccination regimen, which includes two vaccine doses and a booster shot, will become compulsory for all health care workers in Israel, pending the approval of Health Ministry Director-General Prof. Nachman Ash…

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The Great Covid Panic: What Happened, Why, and What To Do Next! By: Paul Frijters, Gigi Foster,

How to make sense of the astonishing upheaval of Spring 2020 and following? Normal life – in which expected rights and freedoms were taken for granted – came to be replaced by a new society as managed by a medical/ruling elite that promised but failed to deliver virus mitigation, all in the name of public health. Meanwhile, we’ve lost so much of what we once had: travel freedoms, privacy, a democratic presumption of equality, commercial freedoms, and even the access to information portals. Something has gone very wrong.

To make sense of it all, the Brownstone Institute is pleased to announce the publication of The Great Covid Panic: What Happened, Why, and What To Do Next, by Paul Frijters, Gigi Foster, and Michael Baker. Combining rigorous scholarship with evocative and accessible prose, the book covers all the issues central to the pandemic and the disastrous policy response, a narrative as comprehensive as it is intellectually devastating.

In short, this is THE book the world needs right now.

In the Great Panic of early 2020, nearly every government in the world restricted the movement of its population, disrupted the education of its children, suspended normal individual liberties, hijacked its healthcare system, and in other ways increased its direct control of people’s lives. Attempts to control the new coronavirus in most countries made the number of deaths from both the virus and other health problems rise. Some countries and regions snapped out of the madness in early 2021 or even before. Yet other governments, still in 2021, were ever more fanatically obsessed with control.

Why did 2020 become, so suddenly and so forcefully, a year of global panic over a virus that for most people is barely more dangerous than a standard-issue flu virus?

This book reveals how the madness started, what kept it going, and how it might end. This is also a book about stories and experiences, some real and some fictionalized to protect identities. Join Jane the complier, James the decider, and Jasmine the doubter, the three core protagonists of the narrative part of the book.

Their experiences illustrate what happened to individuals and through them to whole societies, telling us — if we care to listen — how to avoid a repeat. This literary presentation is mixed with detailed reports of the actual data and deep research that has generally been obscured in the midst of media madness and obfuscation by public-health authority.

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