By the way, all of my wifes family lives in Israel. We visit them every couple of years. We also call each other every week.
They (over 40 of them) have all gotten both their vaccinations, with not one bad side effect.
Almost 80% of my neighborhood has gotten vaccinated, again with no bad reactions. Ages range from 20s to over 90.
My son works at the VA hospital and got his and daily watches VA patients get their vax too.
They haven't had to treat any vaccine side effects, but they have had several former VA patients who were not vaccinated wind up in Covid wards in Orlando hospitals. They were not vaccinated.
Here is the latest this morning in Israel. Yeah there are some people over 60 that have been vaccinated and are in the hospital but they're in their 70,80s and 90s most with other co-morbidities like high BP, heart issues, diabetes and lung issues. A
Just one patient in the hospital under 60, and he's in his upper 50s. The vaccination rate of the very senior in Israel is approaching 100% so there just is not that many unvaccinated very senior people available to catch Covid.
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You know, I post once in a while on the covid threads. Mainly when I see outlandish dangerous bullshit, but some of you live on these threads. The fanatical fear is consuming some of you every waking minute. So much so that many of you have lost all sense of rationality and proportionality when it comes to Covid.
Many here are not the same people they were back in the day.
Why are you so afraid?
Report indicates more than 60% of those hospitalized with coronavirus are fully vaccinated, but almost all are over age 60
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Just one serious COVID patient in Israel is both vaccinated and under 60 — TV
Report indicates more than 60% of those hospitalized with coronavirus are fully vaccinated, but almost all are over age 60
By
AMY SPIRO18 July 2021, 10:50 pm
An Israeli girl receives a COVID-19 vaccine, at a vaccination center in Tel Aviv, July 4, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
Only one of 61 Israelis hospitalized with COVID in serious condition is a fully vaccinated individual under the age of 60, Channel 12 news reported Sunday, citing Health Ministry figures.
According to the report, 24 of those in serious condition are unvaccinated, while 37 are fully vaccinated. The lone seriously ill fully vaccinated person under 60 was in the 50-59 age group.
No fully vaccinated individuals under age 50 were in serious condition.
Meanwhile, among the unvaccinated, 14 people under age 50 were in serious condition, two of whom were younger than 40.
As to the question of why, in the over-60 group, the majority of seriously ill were vaccinated, the report noted that most people in the age group are vaccinated, and so that population is likely to get more representation. It is also possible that unvaccinated individuals have been more cautious than those who felt protected by the vaccines.
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More than 56 percent of all Israelis are fully vaccinated, and more than 90% of those over age 60 have received both doses of the Pfizer vaccine.
As of Sunday afternoon, there were 6,598 active COVID cases in Israel, with 121 hospitalized, 61 in serious condition and 14 on ventilators. Sixteen people have died of COVID in the country since the beginning of July.
The number of Israelis with COVID in serious condition has ticked up over the past month as the ultra-contagious Delta variant takes hold in the country. One month ago, there were just 19 serious cases in the country; Sunday’s figure of 61 is the highest in two months. At its peak in late January, there were more than 1,000 serious cases.
The Delta variant is believed to be more successful in bypassing the COVID vaccines than previous strains of the virus. Health Ministry figures
released in early July indicated that the Pfizer COVID vaccine is only 64% effective in preventing infection, but it remains 93% effective at preventing hospitalization and serious symptoms.
Some health officials cast doubt on these figures, noting that they were gathered only over a period of a month, and they maintain that the Pfizer vaccine is actually more effective against Delta than claimed. Nevertheless, Pfizer
cited data from Israel in seeking authorization from the US Federal Drug Administration for a third booster dose of its vaccine.
Last week, Israel began administering booster doses to those with weakened immune systems, including heart, liver and kidney transplant patients, despite the lack of approval from overseas regulatory agencies. But Health Ministry officials have indicated that third doses for the general population are not imminent, stressing that the vaccine remains largely effective.
