Responding to Pike News online, campaigns with celebrities - and especially a personal example of medical teams • Just before the historic vaccination campaign begins, the Ministry of Health takes off its gloves in an attempt to return war to the disseminators of fabrications • "This is a state rescue operation, the only chance to return to routine"
Practice ahead of the immunization operation in Sheba // Photo: Gideon Markovich
The historic Corona vaccination campaign is already in full swing: Sunday will see the vaccination campaign of the medical staff, both in the hospitals and in the health funds, with the first to be vaccinated at each institution being hospital managers or HMOs who will be vaccinated as personal examples before other employees.
Together you will lead in each hospital the immunization of senior doctors and nurses and head nurses.
"We asked the hospital spokespersons to photograph the principals and the medical and nursing staff from all sectors to be vaccinated. These are ultra-Orthodox doctors, Russian-speaking, Amharic-speaking and Arabic-speaking, as well as nursing staff," said Einav Shimron-Greenbaum, the health ministry's deputy director.
"We will photograph those vaccinated and help with campaigns on TV, social networks, digital and in the sectors. We get a lot of celebrity phones, TV presenters and media people and celebs who are willing to get vaccinated on the broadcast, singers, celebrities and opinion leaders. Including influencers from the third age."
The nurses will be vaccinated
Shimron Greenbaum adds that "the first stage of the campaign is for the medical staff. They are the most significant channel for advocating vaccines. When doctors get vaccinated it affects their patients. When you go to a pediatrician or family doctor for a milk drop or blood test to a nurse you talk about the vaccine. Nurses will also be vaccinated. "
Alongside this, the Ministry of Health will today launch a television campaign in which doctors and senior doctors will explain what the mRNA-based vaccine is.
Yesterday, a website of the Ministry of Health appeared with "questions and answers" about the corona vaccine.
At the same time, the Ministry of Health set up about 10 attention-grabbers who locate "Pike News" advertising networks and pass them on to a team of doctors who examine and formulate a response. In the coming days, counter-publications will be published on the Ministry of Health's false news.
It should be noted that a survey conducted by the ministry among 800 respondents shows that 15% of the respondents would not be willing to receive treatment from a doctor who would not be vaccinated and 35% would not be willing for an unvaccinated teaching employee to treat their children.
The Ministry of Health intends to incorporate these emphases in their information messages to the appropriate audiences.
"Vaccine opponents are a very small group that makes a lot of noise. The majority of the public is vaccinated with routine vaccines. Israel is one of the leading countries in immunization and the opponents are a minority. We will succeed in convincing most of the country," said Shimron-Greenbaum.
"The national immunization operation against Corona is an operation to save the State of Israel. Really. This is our only chance to get life back to normal."
These things come after it has been claimed in recent days that the Ministry of Health has "abandoned" the information arena, especially on networks, and that citizens receive information from social networks and WhatsApp but not from the Ministry of Health.
Falling into the net
Dr. Jan Miskin, an expert in family medicine and infectious diseases, a member of the board of the Association of Family Physicians in Israel and a member of the epidemiology team, is also troubled by the information. "I am worried about what is happening on social media and I am not responding to it."
"Someone writes that she is a doctor in the United States and that she 'knows that the vaccine has nanoparticles' and there is no response to that.
We have to explain and respond. "
The "Madat" organization, which specializes in explaining vaccines, warned that a lack of information could cost a person's life, and could even impair compliance with routine vaccines.
"If the Ministry of Health does not fulfill its role now, we may see an outbreak of other epidemics in the coming years, similar to the 2018 measles outbreak," said Adva Lotan, the association's chairman.
This week, Madaat launched a "#gamanyathsan" information campaign to encourage corona vaccination.
Lotan added that "the Ministry of Health had to start yesterday with an orderly distribution of information to the general public and medical staff, at eye level and connected to the concerns floating from the field, in a way that would allow them to make informed decisions and deal with the false information flooding the public."
Meanwhile, Dr. Elrai Price, head of public health services at the Ministry of Health said yesterday that “there is no vaccine requirement and there will be no sanctions.
It will still be possible for everyone to enter places after testing.
Recovering people will not be required in isolation and in places where a screening test is required to enter the recovering will not be required to do so.
That's a serious incentive. "