An unusual incident in the Health Committee:
During the hearings held today (Tuesday) on the issue of corona vaccines for children, Adv. Valentina Nelin, who attacked Dr. Sharon Elrai Price, was added to the hearing: "She is not objective, she is a Pfizer employee."
The committee's chairman, MK Idit Silman, interrupted her and said: "I do not know who you are, you are registered with me here in the discussion as one of the parents' committee," and immediately added: Of Nelin in the discussion.
MK Idit Silman // Photo: Oren Ben Hakon,
The committee's chairman, MK Idit Silman, said after removing Nelin from the zoom: "I will not be able to discredit or bring baseless accusations against public employees and the committee's management. There are no political issues here. This is a committee designed to protect public health. Dr. Sharon Elrai Price and various and varied factors, there will be more long discussions here and everyone will hear. I am not ready to hear these things. I will not say that Dr. Sharon Elrai Price works for Pfizer.
There is a limit to every trick. "
Only two MKs participated in the committee
The health committee convened this morning to discuss the issue of childhood corona vaccines.
For the first hour of the debate, only two Knesset members were present - Itamar Ben Gvir (Jewish Power) and Gadi Yabarkan (Likud).
The chairman of the health committee, MK Idit Silman (right) said at the beginning of the committee: "Even when we start vaccinating, it takes five weeks to reach protection. This is a period of time that led us in the last wave from 600 to 6,000 verified a day. "Gal will still take time to fully defend."
MK Gadi Yabarkan // Photo: Oren Ben Hakon,
"" The infection coefficient of the initial corona strain reached 2.3, and of the Delta strain increased to 5.8 - the infection coefficients increase from one variant to another and this must also be taken into account. "
The head of the health services, Dr. Sharon Elrai Price, who is forced to walk around these days with close security following threats to her life, said: "Our goal is to show the data in the most transparent and visible way to the parent public to say - what are the risks A parent has to make his choice. "
She added: "There is a difficulty with the thought that this disease is insignificant and it is not a childhood disease. This is not true, we showed data, sick children, can get seriously ill and get symptoms later. 1 in 3,000 children in Israel who have had PIMS.
"There is no attempt to force vaccines in Israel. There are countries where the green mark is valid only for vaccinated people. We always have the option of presenting a test. We do not want people to be vaccinated out of necessity."