Israel is due to leave the quarantine soon in the shadow of thousands of verified people every day, some of whom are very seriously ill • Difficult questions arise around the conduct of the Corona Cabinet, which approved a decision that tramples on the demand to continue the quarantine until at least next Monday • All this, following scandalous pressure from Defense Minister
Checkpoints in Jerusalem
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Closed businesses in Dimona
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Corona Department at the Gates of Justice
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"Unfortunately, it has been a few weeks since the epidemic of treatment for the epidemic has lost direction. Despite systematic warnings in various forums, we are watching frustration at the hourglass of opportunities dwindling. My professional opinion is not accepted, and I can no longer help deal effectively with the virus."
Although one could have guessed that one of the senior officials of the Ministry of Health could say this today, this sharp statement was written in early July, seven months ago, by Prof. Sigal Sadecki, then head of public health services, who together with former director general of the Ministry of Health, Moshe Bar A good sign, they conducted the fight in Corona in a brave, poignant, responsible and dedicated manner in the first wave of the plague.
Indeed, with the alarming rise in the coefficient of infection, with hundreds of critical and respiratory patients and dozens dying every day, and with the new data on 80 patients in Israel with the South African corona mutation, the very difficult questions of the Ministry of Health and the Corona Cabinet arise again. And the chairman of the Blue and White faction has again made a decision that tramples on the Ministry of Health's demand to continue the closure at least until next Monday.
According to some senior officials in the health system, the current epidemic in Israel - with thousands of new nationals a day and thousands of patients, some very serious, is one that requires health and morality to continue quarantine for a few more weeks, and not stop just because of the blue-white and Likud struggles.
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But these things are usually not said by them in public, with the exception of Dr. Sharon Elrai Price, who with great courage continues to say her professional and conscientious statements even if the Knesset and the government do not like to hear them.
The most prominent missing voice is that of Health Minister Yuli Edelstein, who was expected every evening or morning to speak from a different busy corona ward and address the thousands of corona victims, the very heavy burdens in the corona wards, as well as the harsh complaints of doctors, administrators and family members The corona.
Instead, Edelstein continues every morning to issue messages through his spokesman that boast, albeit quite rightly, of the widespread effective corona vaccine campaign in Israel.
Although the vaccination campaign is very successful on a global scale, the Ministry of Health continues to fail to explain the vaccines, because although a significant portion of Israelis want and are in a hurry to get vaccinated, there are still sections of ultra-Orthodox and Arab communities and even medical and nursing staff who refuse to get vaccinated.
In the current closure, the management of the Ministry of Health did not deliberately and openly place the signs to the public on the severity of the situation, which require entry into the closure or tightening, and more importantly - the ministry deliberately refrained from setting concrete numerical goals in curbing the epidemic.
And so Israel is soon to leave the quarantine without being able to understand what led the Ministry of Health to think that it is possible to leave it at all.
Perhaps because the Ministry of Health was already badly burned when the Knesset and the government skipped and trampled on its plans and warnings to exit the second closure and bring it to this day - to horrific mortality and fatal morbidity not seen in Israel since the epidemic began.