[Cathi]

For those that like “deep dives” into covid pandemic research, here is very interesting new info about Israel’s “All Cause Mortality” index.

Both sites are informative about the current index (”over 3 last week compared to other European countries at 0 or below”) and Israel’s unexplained recent pullout of EuroMOMO.

EuroMOMO is a European mortality monitoring activity, aiming to detect and measure excess deaths related to seasonal influenza, pandemics and other public health threats.

https://www.francesoir.fr/politique-monde/ou-sont-passes-les-chiffres-disrael

https://twitter.com/MLevitt_NP2013/status/1377648405078401025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1377648405078401025%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.francesoir.fr%2Fpolitique-monde%2Fou-sont-passes-les-chiffres-disrael

Michael Levitt: “Mortality org has all-cause death to week 8, 2021. Age-adjusted Israeli excess death is 1,226 for 2020 & another 731 for 8 weeks in 2021 (2021 is 4X worse per week than 2020).”

“Something is very odd. Could this be the reason they left?”

[StAnDeliver]

Theory: Remember Israel bragged forever they didn't even have a case well into 2020; then after their first confirmed case Feb 21 2020 (from the Diamond Princess); then bragged they didn't have an outbreak; and then it was early April they had a major outbreak in Bnei Brak, and then they were as screwed as everyone else.

I think the bug was probably lurking in the filth of Gaza and Hebron all of winter 2020, the way the average Chinese guy in his mid-20s with burner phones and a thousand crypto wallets are now the world's money launderers. Remember Abbas got it in late March 2020 and nearly croaked. Erekat did croak in November.

So given the way the virus cycles they probably did miss the winter 2020 cycle that we had in the US, so they are a full cycle behind, ie, they still have caches of a vulnerable population.