The attack of the senior doctor - and the strengthening from the government:
Prof. Idit Matot from Ichilov Hospital, one of the best-known voices in Israel since the outbreak of the corona plague, today (Saturday evening) sharply criticized the policy of dealing with the omicron and specifically called for changing the isolation policy.
"Good week, here is Prof. Idit Matot. These days we are marking two years since the outbreak of the corona plague and unfortunately, if there is anything that still drives the decision makers in this event, it is anxiety and a feeling of fear," Prof. Matot wrote on social media at Ichilov Hospital. .
Prof. Matot - director of the anesthesia department and close to the former Corona projector and hospital director Prof. Roni Gamzo - added: "'Availability' is to be agile in our ability to be flexible, understand at any given time what we are facing and act accordingly.
"The omicron belongs to the corona family but there is nothing to compare it with previous strains that caused a prolonged and severe illness with frequent need for respiration and sometimes the use of acme. It was then. It is not now - not the omricon. In fact, we see Minimal. Minimal!
"And for the record, we do not have respirators in Ichilov with Omicron. Not even one !!! There is also no Acmo problem as there used to be because there is simply no need. What is there? Patients with influenza who breathe. The flu is a disease without public relations. But it kills.
"The numbers shown to us by Corona patients in the hospital are mild (for the most part) and difficult, they have Corona but for the most part they are not due to Corona! Maternity, young people after a fall from a scooter, a patient with an infection and more. But the truth is that they are one after a serious car accident and the other because of a brain hemorrhage. "
Prof. Matot explained that "therefore, the publicity of the number of critically ill patients with corona that appears every day in the media is misleading! Creates only anxiety and leads to problematic managerial decisions.
"Unfortunately, instead of treating this strain accordingly, suppleness we said, people are forced to be imprisoned in their homes and we are de facto in a kind of closure and the country on the verge of collapse. Say, we went crazy? And for what? It reminds me that a few weeks ago a few drops fell here "(Carmel) and we were all waiting for the flood. Now, it's really just a matter of branding."
Prof. Matot referred to a reform that she believes should be made: "And most importantly, the insanity of the loneliness should be re-evaluated. Certainly for the asymptomatic. Certainly for the children who owe a routine life - we rob them of childhood, development, learning, and give them fears, mental disorders and regression. Please save our future generation but also save the parents who are isolated with the children.
"Hundreds of thousands of isolates on what? A huge population roams asymptomatically with Omicron and we do not even know. Many are infected and unaware of it. Do one thing - put on masks. "
The person who welcomed Prof. Matot's remarks was the Minister of Education, Dr. Yifat Shasha Bitton: "Congratulations on Prof. Idit Matot's remarks.
Day by day, more and more experts and professionals are joining the realization that the damage done to children from the endless isolations is immeasurably great.
The isolation of healthy children must be reduced immediately and it must be made easier for students and parents. "
Education Minister Yifat Shasha Bitton, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
Prof. Matot's remarks came after the "unprecedented" letter from the Association of Public Health Physicians of the Medical Association, in which they call for a change in policy and proper prioritization of tests and isolations, in light of the severity of the epidemic.
"In accordance with the World Health Organization's recommendation, and the epidemiological characteristics of the current outbreak, priority and change in recommendations are required. Community, in addition to disrupting the routine of life, especially in the education system.
"It is important that everyone strives to avoid infection and morbidity, anywhere and anytime. At the same time, a network of social and economic support is required from the state. Renew the situation and pinpoint the response to the epidemic, while putting public health at the center.
"The lesson must be learned and applied to the need to invest in public health, for example by setting up health units in local authorities and revitalizing the student health service. Efforts should be made to encourage vaccination against influenza and to maintain health, and herd immunity is achieved through vaccinations, not through mass infections.
"Invest in the health care system and especially in community medicine and public health, and avoid unnecessary burdens for administrative needs, such as the need for an institutional examination or release from isolation by a physician. For regulation and remote treatment.
"It's time to change the automatic testing and isolation policy for all contacts, which damages public health and the routine of life, burdens the entire health system and makes it difficult to quickly identify at-risk patients. "Those who are positive should remain in isolation in order to avoid infecting others. It is good that the period of isolation has been shortened and that it should be shortened further, similar to the guidelines of the CDC and health bodies around the world."
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