Pfizer's dramatic announcement over the weekend regarding the success of the trial of a drug that prevents severe coronary heart disease and death joins the UK-approved authorization to use the anti-viral drug Merck and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)'s emergency vaccine 5 in the Pfizer vaccine.
These are optimistic days in the world regarding the struggle in Corona.
The combination of vaccine, which is the best way to prevent an epidemic when most of the population is vaccinated, and an effective cure for a serious illness - can lead, even if only gradually, to eradicate the deadly and destructive epidemic from the world.
All this is happening at a time when several countries in Europe, including the United Kingdom, Germany, Russia and Ukraine, are experiencing an alarming, widespread, severe and fatal renewed outbreak of the disease.
The growing approval for the vaccine against corona and the announcements about the success of drug trials only emphasize how correct and moral the policy is designed to reduce coronary infection as much as possible, with the aim of reducing morbidity and mortality directly from the virus.
This coincides with the onset of ongoing morbidity among thousands of the approximately one million Israelis infected with the virus, adults and children alike, who have already been harmed or are likely to be harmed in all body systems while medicine is still struggling to cope with these symptoms.
The accumulating information about drugs and vaccines only underscores how immoral and irresponsible the overt, or sometimes covert and covert, call to mass infection of the general population or of children in particular is.
These calls are shared by several senior doctors, who have long since forgotten the doctor's oath, a handful of harmful journalists and also some politicians who have called for it openly or implicitly, and in any case irresponsibly shout to heaven, to pursue a destructive policy of mass infection.
Towards a crucial discussion.
Vaccine Center in Be'er Sheva, Photo: Dudu Greenspan
The new corona vaccines and drugs only underscore the correctness of the Corona infection control policy, and how disastrous some of the current government's actions have been to cause more than 1,600 new corona victims in the fourth, yet unfinished wave, to the thousands of victims from previous waves. .
The Corona's Cabinet of Experts has repeatedly warned the current government that although no closure should be imposed, it is necessary to restrict gatherings and urgently impose further restrictions.
This is the place to mention that the Cabinet of Experts, in which senior members of the Ministry of Health, was so shocked by the wind blowing in the government, that he even warned the government and its head in September against a policy of "mass contagion" in schools over stated or implied calls, God forbid. .
The vaccine will increase confidence
In Israel, the additional and crucial discussion on children's vaccines is expected to take place in the coming days, and it is to be hoped that a sweeping recommendation will be given by most participants for the administration of children's vaccines in Israel soon.
The pediatric vaccine is primarily intended to protect the children themselves, since most children infected with the virus get the disease very easily - but it can still harm them very severely and even fatally: according to the Association of Pediatricians in the Medical Association, out of about half a million children verified To Corona in Israel, 201 children fell significantly and severely - 11 of them died.
But that does not end Corona's damage to children, and according to data from the UK, about 4.6 percent of children who are infected and have already recovered can later develop significant syndromes, ranging from breathing problems, insomnia, muscle pain and even diabetes and severe nervous system problems.
According to data from the US, death from corona or from the ongoing corona symptoms is one of the most common causes of death today among children.
According to these data, thousands of children in Israel may still suffer from these symptoms, so the duty of the government and of all of us is first and foremost to protect the children from serious illness and mortality.
The vaccine for children in Israel will protect them and the adults, and it will expand the health security of the whole of Israel when the immunization rate in the country increases greatly, if indeed most children are vaccinated at these ages.
The growing immunization rate may make a critical contribution to the national struggle in Corona: reducing the spread of the plague, reducing mass infections, severe morbidity and mortality.
