Posted on 08/12/2021 8:57:39 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
Bennett reportedly agrees to expand hospital capacity after being presented with numbers showing hospitalizations quadrupling by mid-September; funding for plan unclear
Israeli hospitals have to prepare for an influx of nearly 5,000 coronavirus patients within weeks, half of whom will need acute care to deal with severe bouts of COVID-19, health officials have warned Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, according to reports Wednesday.
The dire predictions came during a Tuesday meeting between Bennett and senior health experts amid a major influx of new cases, prompting the premier to back a plan to expand hospital capacity, a signal that the government will look to absorb the crush of severe cases head-on rather than attempt to swerve out of its way.
Senior Health Ministry officials and other experts presented Bennett with data forecasting some 4,800 coronavirus patients requiring hospitalization by September 10. The experts expect half of the patients to be seriously ill, putting a major strain on Israel’s health system, according to Hebrew-language media reports on the closed-door meeting.
Israel has seen new case numbers skyrocket in recent weeks from a few dozen a day to over 6,000 on Monday. Another 5,755 were diagnosed on Tuesday, the Health Ministry said Wednesday morning, bringing the number of active cases to 38,942…
(Excerpt) Read more at timesofisrael.com ...
2. Approximately 90+% of Serious COVID cases requiring hospitalization in Israel right now are VACCINATED people (appears to be older people)
What is the Bennett Government solution? More booster vaccinations!?!
What logical inferences can we make?
A. Vaccines are not working
B. Vaccines are being used to kill off older people
C. Vaccine induced ADE?
Others?
Israel has a much higher vaccination rate than the US, and we have been repeatedly told that the Delta variant is more contagious but less virulent than the original version. So what’s going on?
They vaxxed early but used Pfizer which doesn’t seem to last more than about 6 months and doesn’t seem to be very effective against delta.
They should have just used HCQ, zinc, z-pak, vit D, vit C and let people go ahead and get covid. They’d be at REAL herd immunity by now.
Can you remind me what ADE stands for?
Yeah, just wait until all those careless folks spread out across the country after Sturgis. Those selfish bass-tids. Checked the web cams this morning. Seems everybody is having a good time. 😂
Yes, everybody who was vaxed before March 1 will soon be hitting the six-month threshold; many already have.
antibody-dependent enhancement
Thanks.
Antibody Dependent Enhancement
The 70% of their vaccinated are shedding the virus and infecting others.
I wonder why UK is not experiencing this. Will we see UK start to peak again soon?
“2. Approximately 90+% of Serious COVID cases requiring hospitalization in Israel right now are VACCINATED people (appears to be older people)”
Over 90% of hospitalizations in Florida are non-vaccinated. Some hospitals reporting 98%.
“A. Vaccines are not working”
95% of hospitalizations in Florida are the unvaccinated.
The vaccine is killing it!
;-)
I’ve been struggling to reconcile what’s being reported for Florida with what is being reported for the UK, Israel, Singapore, etc. They seem to be 180% apart.
Please read this article that was published today in the New York Magazine (hardly an anti-vax rag).
It destroys all the myths from all sides of this discussion:
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/08/breakthrough-covid-19-cases-may-be-a-bigger-problem.html
The numbers are not what they appear to be...
This article explains what is happening:
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/08/breakthrough-covid-19-cases-may-be-a-bigger-problem.html
BFLR
Jan_Sobieski wrote: “What logical inferences can we make?”
Logic doesn’t apply to the anti-vaxxer cult. They make things up to fit the situation.
If one wants to lie and mislead, one often resorts to percentages. When one looks at the real numbers, not percentages, a far different picture emerges. The article fails to point out that while slightly more than half (56.3%) new cases are vaccinated, the number of cases is down almost 90% (1,118 new cases on July 21 — which is less than a tenth of the 11,934 new cases the country had at its peak on Jan. 27.) The article also fails to note that the number of serious cases per day (73) is a small fraction of the number of serious cases (1000) at the height of the pandemic.
https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-644288348135
Furthermore only about 60% of the Israeli population is fully vaccinated. This is only a failure of the vaccine in the minds of the anti-vaxxer conspiracy cult.
“I’ve been struggling to reconcile what’s being reported for Florida”
I live in Florida. OK with Florida data.
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