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Coronavirus, Israel goes towards herd immunity

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TEL AVIV – Israel towards herd immunity? This is what some Israeli experts have argued in recent days, considering that 70% of the population (9.2 million inhabitants) has recovered from Covid or is immunized, having passed a week since the administration of the second dose of Pfizer vaccine, the only one used in the country.

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The first to talk about the possible achievement of herd immunity was last week the professor Gili Regev-Yochai, director of the Infection Prevention Unit at Sheba Hospital, arguing that the country “has passed the acute phase of the Coronavirus“. Today the professor echoes her Eran Segal, a computational biologist at the Weizmann Institute, who told al Channel 12 that “Israel appears to have achieved some sort of herd immunity and may therefore further slow down restrictions.” Given the encouraging data – only 100 new infections yesterday, a 97% drop in cases since mid-January – the expectation is that the obligation to wear a mask will soon be eliminated, at least in the open air.

What makes the experts particularly optimistic is that the decline in infections, hospitalizations and deaths has not stopped despite Israel gradually reopening all sectors of the economy since March. Gyms, hotels, restaurants, stadiums, cultural centers, discos are once again operational according to the criteria of the “green pass” which limits entry into closed environments only to vaccinated or cured. Some exercises offer the possibility of presenting a quick negative swab, also to overcome the restrictions faced by children under 16, who cannot access inoculation. Passover was celebrated among extended families without this having led to an increase in the infection index R, or any other indicator of the spread of the virus.

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According to other experts, such as Professor Nadav Davidovitch, president of the Association of Public Health Doctors and member of the scientific technical committee that assists the government, it is not correct to speak of “herd immunity” again when there are still a hundred cases a day. “As long as the children and Palestinian Authority residents are not vaccinated, we will not really be able to achieve herd immunity,” he told news site N12.

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Children under 16 make up 25% of the Israeli population. Over 700 children between the ages of 12 and 15 have already received the vaccine: these are cases with previous diseases, which receive an ad hoc authorization. The positive conclusion of clinical trials on this age group announced by Pfizer in recent weeks, has led some Israeli experts to say that the country could start vaccinating children as early as May.

The Palestinian Authority started the vaccination campaign only in February and is instead far behind: out of a population of almost 5 million inhabitants between Gaza and the West Bank, it has so far received 100,000 doses from China, 100,000 from Russia, 60,000 doses. from the United Arab Emirates and another 60 miladoses from Covax, the world organization that assists the poorest countries in vaccination supplies. Israel has vaccinated 110,000 Palestinian commuter workers who cross the border every day to work in Israeli cities.

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