The Intelligence and Information Center of the Intelligence Division published a report today (Tuesday) with the latest corona data in the country. According to the data, the infection rate continues to rise and stands at 1.4 with over 1,600 new verifications in recent days.
The most significant figure, which was based on tests adapted to identify the micron, showed that close to 50 percent of the cases in the country today are of this variant.
Among returnees abroad, it is estimated that about 80 percent of the cases belong to Omicron.
The high volume of verifications, along with sewage findings from a number of different cities across the country, have raised the likelihood of the existence of additional contagion chains in the community that have not yet been identified.
In addition, in light of the rising data from various countries regarding the rate of infection, it is likely that in Israel, too, there will be a very rapid increase in the number of verified, breaking daily records within a few weeks.
This trend can be seen in Rishon Lezion, for example, where the number of verified people has doubled in less than a week.
Horowitz: "It seems that those who are vaccinated with a booster will be protected from the new variant" // Photo: Yaniv Zohar
It also emerged that hospitalization rates for omicron morbidity appear to be low relative to the Delta strain. However, the protection of the vaccine from infection with it is less. Therefore, there is a significant risk of inpatient peaks following this wave of infection. Either way, the number verified alone is likely to challenge the various systems, which will suffer from infections and as a result the absence of many workers. The report stated that it is likely that within a few weeks, along with the expanding influenza morbidity, the health system in Israel will also be challenged - both due to the large number of hospitalizations and due to the large number of infections.
A document released by the New York Department of Health reported a sharp rise in child hospitalizations last week when about half of the children hospitalized were aged 5-0 and that no vaccinated child aged 5 to 11 has been hospitalized so far, despite the fact that about 16% of children aged There.
In addition, only a quarter of inpatients aged 17-12 are vaccinated - a rate significantly lower than the immunization rate at these ages in New York.
This information illustrates that vaccines significantly protect children and adolescents from hospitalizations following omicron infection.
Corona vaccines for children at the National Health Fund, this week, Photo: Coco
Psychiatric care for children and adolescents
Meanwhile, the health committee headed by MK Idit Silman today held a discussion on the issue of mental health care for children and youth.
The committee's chairman, MK Idit Silman: "The issue is unbearable and painful. There are mothers here who have taken the personal pain of growth and helping others and have come with great courage to this discussion to give their shaky testimony. "I myself budgeted a number of plans in the coalition, but we have to think more about helping out of the box. The corona has made names but we also have to look at the family aspects. The system suffers from unpainted budgets and we will try to do that."
Health Committee.
The queues for mental health care for children and adolescents are getting longer, Photo: Noam Moskowitz
The head of the mental health service at the Ministry of Health, Dr. Tal Bergman, said at the hearing: "The bottleneck in pediatric treatments is that there are 270 child psychiatrists in the country for various treatments.
In the central region, the wait is shorter, but in the periphery it can be very long.
In all the years, there has always been a 100 percent increase in hospitalizations. "
Bergman added that "the system is flooded with inquiries and the responses have not increased so the flooding is felt in every frame. Queues today can reach up to a year, in hospitalizations the wait can take weeks, while experts are forced to discuss who to leave in the ward, and even approve releases for children and adolescents "We would be released. We have a national program that requires a budget that includes condensing the existing system and opening new centers to provide many solutions and wide options. Our idea is to increase mental health services for the community."
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