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Covid vaccine: Israel reopens everything with the green pass

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Israel has reopened. It did so after an intense and fast vaccination campaign that brought the country to the center of attention around the world. Many look to Israel to understand what will happen once a large section of the population is vaccinated. Some first data they are encouraging, probably not because of the vaccination campaign alone, but also because of the lockdown, they admit from the country itself. For this reason, the progress of the vaccination campaign and the epidemiological one have also led to a review of the restrictive measures. And in fact today Israel has practically reopened everything, he did it gradually, but he did it. At least as regards the economy, through the Green Pass, a system which one looks at with the same curiosity (and sometimes fear) with which one looks at and expects the effects of the vaccination campaign.

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Small premise: the Green Pass is an entry permit (to events or venues) issued to fully vaccinated people (i.e. who have received two doses of the vaccine, one week apart) or to people recovered from Covid-19. In fact it works like a sort of pass for swimming pools, gyms, hotels, cinemas, stadiums and cultural events, and should currently be seen as a test. Or rather: as a temporary program, in progress, a solution to learn, linked to the knowledge that will gradually continue to arrive on Covid-19, including variants, and strictly connected to the vaccination campaign. Opens the doors, but it does not solve all the current problems, such as that linked to the problem of schools, partially open in the country, he tells Salute Tomer Lotan, head of the National Coronavirus Response Center. It lasts six months for those who have been vaccinated, until the end of next June for those who have recovered. An arbitrary time that tries to give, on the one hand, a certain, albeit short, time limit to people for the activities they can carry out, Lotan explains, and on the other hand it sets a limited window to acquire new information on viruses and vaccines, which can to revise the plans, in the light of new scientific evidence. “We know that the disease can hold us many surprises”, comments the expert, to mean that things could change and the plans could be revised as the scenario changes.

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This strategy embraces the whole world that revolves around disease and measures to combat the pandemic, confides Lotan, recalling how the Green Pass is a system designed for the economy, but closely linked to health planning: “It is part of a program built by the government in which it was only introduced after vaccinating three million people in the country. We put in place some sanitary measures before starting the Green Pass program, which was started in stages, and now we have reached the last part ”. The one that foresees the openings of hotels and restaurants: “The first openings started more than two weeks ago with the first Green Passes concerned sporting and cultural events and fitness centers, and we know that at least in these cases things have gone quite well and are so to speak easy: people buy for example tickets for this kind of occasions, they do not improvise – take Lotan again – we do not yet have data regarding the latest openings started last Sunday and with the widespread use of the Green Pass, just like the restaurants: we know that some structures are well organized and others less so, with some difficulties, for example with the control systems “.

A control system, digital or paper

Yes, because the Green Pass works like this. It is a control system, to be exhibited at the entrance of a club, used today, Lotan quotes, by about one and a half million people: “The numbers of those who use the Green Pass are growing every day: we have started an extensive activation of the GP these days and surely by the end of the week we will have many more Israelis using it ”. In fact it is a digital system – but not only: there are also printable versions, for those who do not have a telephone or for the elderly population – associated with a QR code, which is scanned at the entrance to a venue or an event. . Without the scanners knowing the status of the person showing the pass, whether vaccinated or cured, says Lotan, who ensures the app’s security – for example from cyber attacks. Yet more critical voices have been raised about the risks associated with the use of such a system (and not just the Israeli one, now that several countries are thinking of replicating it). The risks feared on the horizon are that of an unfair system, which creates inequalities between the population of vaccinated and non-vaccinated people, and not without possible repercussions on privacy, they explain some experts on the pages of the Mit Tecnhology Review, even going so far as to suggest preferring the paper version to that of the app. On the other hand, a spin on Twitter is enough to get the idea of ​​how many Green Passes and the like are also creating fears and discontent. Last but not least also health: there are also those who fear that the issuance of the Green Pass themselves have been too hasty, reports the Times of Israel.

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On closer inspection, someone has already been left out: children and young people under 16, those not eligible for vaccination (only those who have recovered from Covid-19 can receive it). Nor does Lotan hide the fact that that of children, who are currently banned from cultural events, sports or restaurants, is one of the biggest challenges opened by the Green Pass. “But we are working to provide rapid tests at premises and facilities in the coming weeks – explains Lotan – so for example that when a family wants to go to a museum, parents can show their Green Pass while the children are tested. quick at the entrance “. Allowed if negative, of course. In a similar way to what happens now for the entrance to the hotel, where the results of a classic swab (based on PCR) are used. “The idea is to make the use of rapid tests widespread, leaving the use of PCR swabs at the clinical level and for epidemiological research”.

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