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Head of Public Health Services: If there is no closure - the school year will begin as a series
Dr. Sharon Elrai Price clarified to Walla! That if the morbidity is not stopped and even increased, there will be no escape from closing the economy, including the education system. At the same time, in the background of the fight against vaccines in the education system, The onset of symptoms
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Meirav Cohen
Sunday, 15 August 2021, 18:57 Updated: Monday, 16 August 2021, 08:32
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In the shadow of preparations for the start of the school year in exactly two weeks, the head of the public health services, Dr. Sharon Elrai Price, explains to Walla today (Sunday) that if there is no closure, the school year will begin as a series. inevitable closure of the entire economy, including the education system.
"I think there will be a situation where the economy is managed and the school year is not open," said Dr. Alrai Price.
"The school year will not open as a series only if we reach a closure. We are doing everything to curb the disease and not reach this junction."
This morning, the director general of the Ministry of Health, Professor Nachman Ash, said that he hopes to see signs of a decrease in the severity of the disease this week. The hard ones.
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At the same time, Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz announced that by virtue of his authority he decided that vaccinations would be held in schools, however due to the opposition of Education Minister Shasha Bitton, the vaccinations would be held at zero or at the end of school.
A new study from the National Institute for Health Policy Research looked at what happened when they started vaccinating against the flu virus in schools, and made a comparison between classes that were vaccinated at school and those that were not.
The study was conducted in nine schools in Tel Aviv.
Out of 527 participants, 359 (68.1%) students were not vaccinated and 168 (31.9%) students were vaccinated.
"There will be no situation in which the economy is run and the school year does not open," Dr. Elrai Price last week (Photo: Knesset Spokeswoman Noam Moskowitz)
The data show that unvaccinated children reported more symptoms of influenza compared to vaccinated children (19.5% vs. 7.7%), and that there was a 60.5% decrease in the onset of symptoms.
Among unvaccinated children, a higher number of doctor visits and school days were lost (35.7% vs. 14.9% and 42.9% vs. 25.6%, respectively).
The rate of flu symptoms among the household of unvaccinated children was 34.5%, compared with 25% among the household of vaccinated children.
The study found that a flu vaccine given at school reduced the rate of flu-like symptoms among all second-graders and their families by 60.5% and 27.5%, respectively, compared with all third-graders.
According to the researchers, expanding the school-based immunization program has increased the public health benefit of flu vaccines among both school children and their family members.
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