After a long wait, the national vaccination campaign begins to bear fruit • According to data published by Prof. Eran Segal of the Weizmann Institute, mortality from Corona has already decreased by 40 percent compared to the peak in mid-January • "Fewer and fewer elderly people are infected and hospitalized in critical condition. It looks like this "
Professor Eran Segal of the Weizmann Institute posted today (Thursday) on his Twitter page data on the rate of spread of the corona virus in Israel, and estimated that the accelerated vaccination campaign conducted by the state is beginning to affect and stop the spread of the virus in Israel.
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This is a series of tweets that continues the expert's assessment since the beginning of the month, according to which the rate of decline in infection among those aged 60 and over proves that Israel is doing the right thing and that the vaccination campaign is beneficial.
He said, "The relative share of verified people aged 60 and over among all verified people continues to decline. The same is the relative share of patients aged 60 and over of the verified people. In the second closure and leaving it, it does not look like that."
In the graph attached by Prof. Segal to this tweet, he shows the percentage of people over the age of 60 and over, both in terms of the number of new carriers of the virus that are discovered and in terms of severe patients in hospitals, when it is significantly clear that this population group, unlike the second wave, is relatively small Both in the number of patients and in terms of the number of verified infections.
In addition, Prof. Segal also examined the percentage decrease in infection by age segmentation, noting that "at the age of 60 and over, since the peak of morbidity in mid-January, 58% less verified, 44% fewer new hospitalizations, 38% fewer new severe patients, and 40% Fewer die. "
These data also affect the number of deaths in the country from the corona plague, which are also declining according to the graphs shown by Prof. Segal.
"Fortunately, there are few deaths under the age of 60 (about 7% of all deaths)," he noted.
