"The vaccine is really critical now. Anyone who encounters the new variant when exposed without a vaccine will put themselves at unnecessary risk. In the coming days we will have more accurate information about the effectiveness of the vaccine against the Omicron strain. There is already room for optimism. In the booster, it will also be protected from this variant. "
These are the words of Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz today (Tuesday), during a visit to Soroka Hospital in Be'er Sheva.
It is important to listen to Minister Horowitz on this issue.
Indeed, there is no doubt that the corona vaccine provides extremely strong protection against a serious illness and death from the plague - and it will provide good protection, even if there is still no accurate data on its effectiveness against the new corona variant.
In other words, the vaccine protects the lives of each and every one of us individually, and the vaccine also has another feature: when the majority of the public is vaccinated, a herd protection is also created that gives cumulative health protection to the community and society.
By yesterday, 8,195 Israeli victims of the corona had already died tragically and tragically.
The vaccine not only protects against severe and deadly corona disease, but also provides significant protection against infection and infection with the virus, which causes some mild patients to a long and lasting illness.
Some patients have been dealing for months and even years with very severe physical and mental damage, some of which are unpredictable and curable.
All this, when according to data from the Ministry of Health, about 1 million and 350,000 Israelis have been infected or have been ill to this day, of which more than half a million are children.
When the corona plague broke out, the world estimated that it would take many years for humanity to develop a vaccine against it. However, the development was much faster, and Israel was among the first to vaccinate the entire population - as well as the first to begin vaccinating in the third dose, the booster. These steps have proven themselves in front of the whole world. According to the Prime Minister's reports I fell for Bennett and Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz, there are full in Israel - existing and future - that are enough to vaccinate the entire population in the country. This is something that in itself is a privilege that many countries in the world do not have, some of which are desperate for vaccines and some of which people wait many months in line for the vaccine. All this, when at that time in Israel they are just waiting for the Israelis to come and receive him.
Despite all this, there are still hundreds of thousands of Israelis who did not come to be vaccinated in the first and second doses, and about one and a half million Israelis have not yet bothered to come and receive the third dose of the vaccine.
In addition, the rate of childhood immunizations is still not sufficiently mass, and the task is to vaccinate as quickly as possible all more than one million children aged 5 to 11. This vaccine is intended to protect children and also increase the health security of all Israel, by greatly increasing Israel's immunization rate. If indeed most children are vaccinated at these ages.
The increasing rate of immunization may make a critical contribution to the national struggle in Corona: reducing the re-spread of the plague of any kind, and reducing the incidence of mass infections, morbidity and mortality among the elderly.
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