"Super-infectious" are usually young or old with a social behavior profile • Their early identification and isolation - is most effective in preventing infection • Interpretation
Incident in HD 1 as a national parable: From the few details released by the IDF this week, it appears that one or two cadets were infected outside the camp.
When they returned to the base, several dozen cadets contracted them.
We learned from the media that the entire cadet company had been placed in quarantine in a tent camp outside the base following the incident, and responsible officers were reprimanded.
This time it is not about minorities or ultra-Orthodox but within the IDF, which is perceived by the public as a body operating according to clear procedures, where the individuals are obedient and are in a protected environment. The incident, as hidden, reveals the macro problem of the State of Israel. They were probably "super-contagious."
From the literature we have learned the subject of "super-adhesives" which are so ignored in Israel.
In this, apparently, we are missing the important and main tool of preventing chain adhesion.
"Super-infectious" are usually young or older in working age, active at work or in society, so their behavioral profile is social: lots of meetings and lots of contact for a day of work or leisure.
What characterizes such social types is that they are easily contagious compared to other ordinary young people.
What is more noticeable is that they easily infect those around them.
"Super-adhesives" can also accumulate a high viral load, and then the ease of infection and the ability to infect also increase several times over.
Infection is also done with an initial high viral load, and this may later create a more tumultuous disease in the infected.
It is clear to all of us that coverage of the said profile would have diagnosed the super-sticker or super-stickers, and isolating them for two weeks would have prevented the unfortunate result in BAD 1. The whole company was put in a tent camp outside the base, and in full analogy to our country a tight closure was declared.
The result: intra-cleft infection that replaced the underlying infection resulting from what was published, due to suboptimal defense and non-observance of rules.
This part of the event indicates on the one hand the importance of the defense required of the public, which in essence is supposed to reduce the crowds.
Nonetheless, a tight closure changes the nature of the infection to a home infection, or in our case to a company.
This inefficiency and change in the scene of infection have not been fully studied in Israel, and there is probably some thought about it that is less dangerous.
Hence the relative ease with which the state announced the tight closure.
It turned out that there are no shortcuts, and the early detection of super-stickers and their isolation without blaming or blaming them - is the most effective in preventing infection.
We'm not there yet.
This is an opportunity to contact the owners of the Israeli snobbish profile, and the employees and members of the company whose lives include multiple contacts with people in one day: just be well-behaved, go get tested in Corona and do not wait for symptoms or infections that may be infected.
Do not wait for the state to evacuate or oblige you to be tested.
The author is the director of Hadassah Medical Center
