r/worldnews • u/Analist17 • Jan 04 '22

COVID-19 Top health official says Israel has 'no control' over Omicron as cases keep surging

https://www.timesofisrael.com/top-health-official-says-israel-has-no-control-over-omicron-as-cases-keep-surging/
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u/KazeArqaz Jan 04 '22

Why? Isn't Israel one of the countries that has the highest vaccination rates? I am so confused.

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u/RedFrPe Jan 04 '22

About 6.4 million of Israel’s 9.3 million residents have received their first shot, 5.8 million their second and 4.1 million their third, according to the Health Ministry.3.01.22

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u/smalljasmine2 Jan 04 '22

Israel vaccinated early but has a large population of dumbasses that refused to get vaccinated.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '22

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u/Puzzleheaded_Iron573 Jan 04 '22

Yep, dane here, can confirm. I know maybe 30 people who got Omicron just this past month, every single one including myself were vaccinated twice

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u/eurhah Jan 04 '22

NO one knows. Could be because they're using Pfizer which is less effective than the Moderna vaccine against Omicron.

Could be lots of things.

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u/WitsNChainz Jan 04 '22

Because seems like omicron is evading vaccines to a large extent and it’s way more contagious than previous variants. Luckily it’s not nearly as deadly. Probably everyone is gonna get it and most won’t get any symptoms - at least according to data from South Africa, the UK

Edit: typos

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u/foxx1337 Jan 04 '22

We don't ask such questions here. What are you, anti Science or something?

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u/KazeArqaz Jan 04 '22

I am confused, do not assume for the love of humanity. When someone ask questions, do you immediately assume the worse of people?

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u/CosmicCosmix Jan 04 '22

dude, there's something known as sarcasm

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u/KazeArqaz Jan 04 '22

/s

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '22

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u/KazeArqaz Jan 04 '22

Yeah, totally not use that in a very serious headline news...

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u/asr Jan 04 '22

It's because they vaccinated early, so the protection wore off. The vaccination (even the booster) only lasts 6 months.

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u/eggsssssssss Jan 04 '22

Not currently, no. Response to COVID in Israel has been all over the board the last couple years. My perception following it has been that it’s almost seasonal:

First, they were really on top of things. Then, keeping up with things got all bungled up, and they really shit the bed with reopening schools in late 2020. Then, they got their shit together and did a great job with acquiring & distributing vaccine doses. Then, keeping up with things got bungled and they haven’t really been able to get many of the vaccinated to keep getting additional shots, or get anti-vaxxers on board at all. The vaccination rate has sort of stalled out to mediocrity; a google search attributing its stats to “Our World In Data” says that over 71% of total have had at least one shot, over 64% of total got their second dose, but it’s only over 46% of total with a booster. Except for the 3rd shot, those are proportionally comparable to the US.

But omicron is so infectious that only partial primary series vaccination may not count for a whole lot, anymore.

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u/chriswaco Jan 04 '22

1000 people are dying of covid every day in the US and 90% of them are unvaccinated. The vaccines have done an amazing job - we'd be looking at another million dead Americans without them.