Two years after the start of the pandemic, Israel, the country that set the standard in the beginning of vaccination, continues to be a benchmark for the management of the health emergency.
Hence, the announcement by the experts from the Ministry of Health that they are contemplating changing their response strategy, in the midst of the spread of the omicron variant, is of global interest.
As reported by some local media, Israel is considering promoting a kind of “Mass contagion model” before the imminence of an upturn in infections.
The fact that preliminary analyzes show that omicron causes milder symptoms that delta, a variant that was cruel to its citizens, would support the measure.
Likewise, the high vaccination rates (more than 60% of the population has its complete scheme) would provide guarantees so that the absence of restrictions mobility and contact does not translate into a greater number of hospitalizations and deaths, indicated the health authorities.
(It may interest you: Fauci says that the omicron peak in the United States will be at the end of January).
The ‘massive contagion’ strategy It is the one that Sweden followed in the initial stage of the pandemic, when it decided not to impose severe restrictions on people who did not belong to risk groups, in an attempt to continue with normal life and achieve herd immunity.
At that time, this measure was applied before there were vaccines against covid-19 and that is why it was viewed with suspicion by certain experts.
Now, with new tools at hand, the viability of ‘mass contagion’ is once again at the center of the debate.
This is how the covid-19 progresses in Israel
In recent days, the positivity rate has risen in the Jewish state to 2.48% and the infection rate – the average number of people infected by each virus carrier – has skyrocketed to 1.53, indicating that the outbreak is intensifying.
An average of 3,000 cases per day in the last week he would realize it.
However, the increase in infections has not implied an increase in hospitalizations or in the death toll.
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According to the estimates of the Ministry of Health, in about 15 days, 90% of the new cases They will be for the omicron variant that, it is worth remembering, arrived in the country in November.
Under that logic, the Israeli Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, affirmed this week that his country is on the verge of a “storm of infections whose magnitude we have not yet seen” and warned that “many people are going to be infected” with the omicron variant. without being able to do anything to prevent it.
“The storm will happen. We can’t help it.”said the president, who is in isolation after his daughter tested positive for the virus, in an interview with public media.
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