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Is Pfizer Vaccine to Blame for Israel’s High COVID Infection Rate?
Israel Today ^ | September 2, 2021 | Ryan Jones

Posted on 09/03/2021 5:13:29 AM PDT by george76

Top media personality slams disregard for Israeli study showing vaccinated more likely to be infected than those with natural antibodies..

Israelis are frustrated by the fact that their nation has one of the highest COVID-19 vacation rates (over 60 percent are fully vaccinated, and 25 percent have already had a booster), and yet is also leading the world in daily rate of new infections.

Israel has been logging over 10,000 new infections daily this week, with a positive test rate of around 7%. Many countries no longer consider Israel to be “green” on the COVID scale. By comparison, the United States has been registering about half the number of new daily infections per capita (around 900 per million citizens for Israel, just 450 per million for the US).

A new study suggests that Israel’s high vaccination rate could be at least partially to blame for the current spike in coronavirus infections.

The study was carried out last month by Israel’s Maccabi Healthcare Services (one of the local HMOs), and the results were featured in the leading scientific journals Science and Nature. (See: Why is Israel Still Giving COVID Boosters if the WHO Said to Stop?) But it really garnered attention on social media this week when veteran Israeli journalist and Channel 13 News anchor Oshrat Kotler expressed her disapproval over the findings not being widely reported in Israel.

“How sad that I had to read about this important Israeli research on an American news site,” Kotler wrote on Facebook. The journalist added that she had contacted Maccabi and confirmed the veracity of the headline she had read, which asserted, based on the Maccabi study, that “vaccinated individuals are 13 times more likely to be infected by the Delta variant than those with natural antibodies.”

Indeed, the majority of the nearly 700 Israelis currently hospitalized due to COVID-19 are fully vaccinated against that virus, and vaccinated individuals make up a large percentage, if not a majority of those testing positive every day.

In other words, the “vaccine” is not preventing either infection or transmission, though in Israel it did lower those numbers, at least for a couple of months. It must also be noted that the authors of the Science article and most of the experts they cited did encourage inoculation given that the shots produced by Pfizer, Moderna and others are highly effective in preventing serious illness. Just not as effective as naturally-produced antibodies that come from being infected. This is especially true as the virus mutates.

This again raises the question of whether or not Israel and other nations are being too aggressive in trying to control a virus that nearly all experts agree isn’t going away no matter how many booster shots we receive. If our own bodies’ immune systems are more effective in protecting us against COVID-19, why not let them do their job?

Again, even those leaning toward that line of thinking aren’t saying the vaccine shouldn’t be used. There are sectors of society that are at greater risk of serious illness and complications, and they should be inoculated. At the same time, many are arguing, and Kotler now seems to be among them, that the majority of the population should get on with life, let the virus run its course, and before long a natural “herd immunity” will develop.

“The only conclusion that can be drawn from this study is that we [Israel] need to reevaluate our course of action,” wrote Kotler. “My own conclusion is that if we don’t belong to one of the at-risk sectors of the population, then we should be very careful about this problematic vaccine.”

Kotler stressed firmly that she is not an anti-vaxxer, but insisted that when it comes to the COVID vaccine, the public “has been deceived.”

But, of course, that’s a policy no politician is going to be able to adopt so long as Kotler’s colleagues in the mainstream media are hyping COVID-19 as the greatest threat to mankind.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Israel; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: antibodies; covid; covid19; infection; infectionrate; israel; naturalantibodies; pfizer; pfizervaccine; rate; vacationrates; vaccinated; vaccine
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1 posted on 09/03/2021 5:13:29 AM PDT by george76
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To: george76

um...

YES.


2 posted on 09/03/2021 5:19:13 AM PDT by HypatiaTaught (Sounds like a conspiracy theory? Wait 6 months and it will be truth.)
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To: george76; DugwayDuke

This data should be disconcerting.


3 posted on 09/03/2021 5:20:23 AM PDT by zek157
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To: george76

The fourth injection will surely stem the tide. /s


4 posted on 09/03/2021 5:21:25 AM PDT by tatown
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To: george76

Earlier this week isreal said the non vaxxed are better protected from the variant than those who are. I have adopted the abortionist cry “my body my choice”. pro abortion protesters outside of texas house wearing masks and Im sure have been vaccinated, such stupidity


5 posted on 09/03/2021 5:21:49 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: george76

Simple solution: Stop testing.


6 posted on 09/03/2021 5:27:20 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: george76

Perhaps vaccination is not the answer. It is, at best, only a stopgap measure at this point. A more personal form of prevention would include changes in diet, adding a zinc compound like zinc gluconate, and a zinc ionophore like Vitamin D3, quercetin, or hydroxychloroquine. In therapeutic level of dosage, the presence of the Zn++ ion stops the replication of the COIVID-19 Wuhan virus in its tracks, and the natural immune factors of the body now respond to this “killed” virus. In effect, your body learns to fight off the virus by being trained to recognize and resist the infection.

Which is what the vaccine was supposed to do.


7 posted on 09/03/2021 5:28:57 AM PDT by alloysteel ( Poor people give rich people all their money anyway. Just as they have always done.)
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To: george76
...the “vaccine” is not preventing either infection or transmission, though in Israel it did lower those numbers, at least for a couple of months.

Is there a way to prove that? Viruses have seasons, or waves -- like everything else. I know they keep telling us the effectiveness wanes over time, but how do we know they're not just telling us that? That it's been ineffective the whole time? Or that it's ineffective AND causing the spikes?

The vaccines were introduced last November, and we had a spike for a few months afterwards. Then we had Biden's 4th of July push, wanting 70% vaccinated by the holiday. And now we're experiencing a post 4th spike. The timing between the spikes is almost identical, and it's not coincidence.

There hasn't been a single positive piece of news about the vaccines. It hasn't done what we were promised, from day one.

8 posted on 09/03/2021 5:32:29 AM PDT by AnglePark
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To: BenLurkin

Yep. Kids are returning to school and all being tested.

Morbidity is falling slight, especially for those over 60.


9 posted on 09/03/2021 5:34:03 AM PDT by jjotto (Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: george76

“Vacation Rates” ??!!!


10 posted on 09/03/2021 5:34:03 AM PDT by nevermorelenore ( If My people will pray ....)
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To: george76
I thought Israel used the Astrazenica vaccine
11 posted on 09/03/2021 5:34:20 AM PDT by bella1 (Mean Tweets 2024!)
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To: ronnie raygun

Israel shows natural immunity to SARS CoV2 is FAR superior to the artificial kind - vaccinated people were 13x as likely to be infected and 27x to have symptomatic infections ..

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3988852/posts


12 posted on 09/03/2021 5:36:01 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

That’s what I call an outstanding vaccine…


13 posted on 09/03/2021 5:38:47 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: tatown

The fourth injection will surely stem the tide. /s


If that doesn’t work there is always the fifth and sixth ...

Prediction, the shot that cures COVID19 will also cure the common cold. Holding breath ...


14 posted on 09/03/2021 5:46:13 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: BenLurkin
Simple solution: Stop testing.

When people show up sick in emergency rooms, doctors usually want to know why. Do you stop testing in the ERs as well?

15 posted on 09/03/2021 5:47:04 AM PDT by Captain Walker ("The side that has Truth gets Humor as a bonus.")
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To: george76

unvaccinated people catching the disease are responsible for the infection rate


16 posted on 09/03/2021 5:49:25 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Like BLM, Joe Biden is a Domestic Enemy )
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To: zek157

I wonder if it will penetrate. My wife and I were talking last night, what moment will be the moment the powers that be realize they f’ed up. When Sweden bans travel from the most vaccinated country in the world, something bad is going on.


17 posted on 09/03/2021 5:52:36 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: bert

“unvaccinated people catching the disease are responsible for the infection rate”

That’s bone dry sarcasm.


18 posted on 09/03/2021 5:53:33 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: george76

El Salvador has reached about 99% vaccinated. But their daily infection rate has not gone down.


19 posted on 09/03/2021 5:55:14 AM PDT by marron
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To: dynoman

I would like to think that will happen, but suspect it doesn’t.

How could they come clean on this disaster? Especially after forcing the military and healthcare professionals to get it. They will not relinquish the absolute control.


20 posted on 09/03/2021 6:00:26 AM PDT by zek157
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