The fifth wave of the corona is already here, and even before the accelerated spread of the South African strain (omicron) - the renewed rate of infection continues, with hundreds of new verified per day, a consistent increase in omicron vertebrae, and an increase in infection rate above 1, indicating the intensity of the outbreak .
Researchers at the Hebrew University, one of the most important groups of researchers and scientists in the fight against the corona in Israel, warned Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and the heads of the Ministry of Health on Friday that the fifth wave of corona has already begun in Israel. ".
Also in many other countries in the world, including Germany, Russia, Denmark and Norway, there is a severe, very dangerous and deadly renewed outbreak of the plague. According to data from the UK, where there are about 60,000 new verifiers a day and a widespread outbreak of the omicron, every third vertebrate in the London area contracted the omicron at an alarming rate of 2-3 days, until the UK government launched the emergency plan including a sweeping recommendation to work from home. Very unusual in the level of danger of the new variety. However, scientists in the UK are warning of tens of thousands of new corona victims in the winter if Britain does not impose much more immediate and severe restrictions.
At the same time, the South African health minister warned that infants up to one year of age are at high risk for severe corona disease, amid reports of child mortality from corona and a new rise in child hospitalizations infected with corona - most of them without previous background diseases - as in previous waves.
A relatively optimistic figure, published in the UK, was about the high efficacy of Pfizer's three doses of vaccine against the new strain as well, and these figures also show up in new findings published yesterday by the Sheba Government Hospital in Tel Hashomer.
Indeed, as was already known in previous corona waves, vaccines are the primary means that can protect each of us individually and the country as a whole from widespread outbreak of the fifth wave and from a sharp rise in the number of severe and dead patients.
However, despite this, there are still some 600,000 Israelis who have not been vaccinated against Corona, 1.2 million Israelis who have not received the third vaccine and another 900,000 parents who have not taken their 5- to 11-year-old children to be vaccinated against the virus, although it may Hurt children severely.
Yesterday, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett spoke with the directors of the four health funds, asked them to step up the "national effort" for vaccines and emphasized that "he expects them to act with all the tools at their disposal to meet the immunization goals." Beyond flamboyant statements and speeches, however, the Prime Minister and the Ministry of Health must act much more resolutely and decisively to increase Israel's health and immune defenses: starting with a mass vaccination campaign in each and every school in Israel - and not just a partial, hesitant and cowardly operation To the schools, as if the vaccines are assigned out of disgust - and if necessary then really force it on Education Minister Yifat Shasha Bitton and the management of her office. An urgent, serious and budgeted plan is also needed to encourage vaccination, and significant restrictions against the non-vaccinated.
The Ministry of Health and the HMOs have so far made serious efforts to encourage immunization, but what they are doing is too slow, too little and too hesitant in the face of the dangerous outbreak of the plague, and the result is that almost 3 million Israelis are not vaccinated at all or fully.
This is a terrible omission by the Ministry of Health and the HMOs, which could cost blood and blood, and as required during a health war - Prime Minister Bennett must immediately launch a national emergency plan for an accelerated immunization operation.
The heads and directors of the Ministry of Health and the HMOs must bring results and not just empty slogans and statements of actual content.
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