Israel close to herd immunity, top health officials say

Herd immunity in a month? Health officials say Israel close to herd immunity thanks to recent spate of infections, booster shot campaign.

Arutz Sheva Staff , Sep 06 , 2021 8:08 AM

COVID-19 vaccine
COVID-19 vaccine

Israel appears to be nearing herd immunity for the novel coronavirus, top health officials say, suggesting that the fourth wave of mass COVID outbreaks – and potentially the pandemic as a whole – could finally be nearing the end.

According to a report by Kan Monday morning, a number of unnamed senior Health Ministry officials said that if the recent spike in coronavirus infections continues through the next few weeks alongside the rapid mass vaccination campaign for the third dose of the COVID vaccine, Israel will be well-positioned to reach herd immunity within a month or two.

The Health Ministry officials cited in the report estimated that over the next couple of weeks, tens of thousands of additional unvaccinated Israelis – mostly children – will be infected with COVID.

At the same time, hundreds of thousands of vaccinated Israelis will likely receive a third dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Health Ministry officials say that ultimately, some 4.5 million Israelis will likely get the third dose of the vaccine. Currently, more than 2.6 million Israelis have received the booster shot.

Should Israel reach herd immunity – when the number of immune individuals is high enough to prevent sufficient new infections for the virus to sustain itself in the population – the Health Ministry estimates Israel will return to the same low level of infections and serious illness just prior to the fourth wave.

September 6, 2021 | 6 Comments »
Subscribe to Israpundit Daily Digest

Leave a Reply

6 Comments / 6 Comments

  1. @Bear
    The disease is not being administered to every person on the planet. Some people will contract the disease and some will die from its many harmful effects, it is a consequence of the fact that treatments are withheld to allow this outcome, but this is why the disease is harming people.

    We should not forget that the portion of the SARS-Cov2 that is causing the heart disease is the spike – the same spike that is produced in high levels for unknown periods of time by the vaccine. Also the Covid disease creates the production of spike using fragile viral mRNA that is easily broken down after every use. The vax is using a rigid mRNA that is not broken down by the enzymes that destroy normal mRNA – think of it as a Superman-mRNA. It will persist, even after the cell ruptures, which has other disease consequences. And this Superman-mRNA is being administered to children who fight off the natural disease with ease and no hospitalization. The virus and the vax have a common thread in the toxic spike, but the disease is limited by physiology of mRNA and the vax is limited by the science associated with the Superman-mRNA, and no studies were done to determine its consequences, and the safety study performed last year which should have been used to this purpose was intentionally halted which prevented any useful data being derived from it. So we don’t know the effects of this rigid mRNA and its extended spike production on a number of things, but the most alarming is that we have no knowledge of its impact on the unborn child, and to the fertility of child bearing women.

  2. @Bear
    So, here is the big story: the vax cause myocarditis. The mechanism is uncertain, though the spike is associated in one of a few methods. The rate of disease is not known, it just isn’t. The Israeli data shows it at about 324% increase if you accept the findings of their published data, but I don’t because like all of the vax data it is based on double digit samples which are useless to support certainty, especially when trying to establish the causal occurence of heart disease. Once we establish that the vax increases myocarditis, even a bit, not 324% but even 2%, it calls for further inquiries, both in the vax to establish the rate of myocarditis, and in the billions of people who have taken the vax as they may all or none have a now established heart disease. The take away here should be two-fold.

    1. The vax should be pulled from the market pending research, real research with real figures and comprehensive safety knowledge about the vax and any pseudo-“boosters” they plan to employ.
    2. The people having had the vax should be undergoing systematic testing for myocarditis. It is not something to play around with. Many find they have it only after they have died suddenly because of it. There are treatment options, and lifestyle changes that are essential to those who might have myocarditis, and everyone taking the vax is liable of having now acquired it. We are human beings. We have more rights than the rats that Malone subjects to his inquiries. Even if the vax was handled as the experiment it was, and every harm was made known to everyone – none of which was done – they have a duty to establish that you were or weren’t harmed by your involvement in their dubious vaccine research.

    I have no expectation that either 1 or 2 will be done. But no one should be fooled into thinkng myocarditis is not an early death sentence if left untreated or undiagnosed. And no one can tell you it is increased occurence in 3% or 300% at this point. And even assuming it is only 3% increase, if you are part of that 3% don’t you deserve to have that known?

    A simple aside that is enlightening: There is a anti-psychotic drug that has a 3%increase of myocarditis. When this drug is prescribed, it has been advised that the patients be tested for 3months to watch for any signs associated with the development of myocarditis, and if it does occur, withdraw the treatment. Problem is that the vax will produce spike regardless of their findings and the length of spike production is completely unknown. They have shown that in some people it is still being produced after 2-5months. So no way to withdraw that treatment.

  3. @ Peloni in regards to what you reporting:

    When broken down by the number of overall people who have received the vaccines, the reporting rate for this side effect is 7.4 per million for Pfizer and 20 per million for Moderna.

    The highlights section of the PHO report conclude with a note that “COVID-19 vaccines continue to be recommended and are highly effective at preventing symptomatic infection and severe outcomes from COVID-19 disease, which is also associated with a risk of myocarditis.”

    Toronto Sun Reporting Sept 3, 2021
    https://torontosun.com/news/provincial/over-100-ontario-youth-have-been-sent-to-hospital-for-vaccine-related-heart-problems

  4. Over 200 vaccinated end up in Canadian province’s emergency room with heart problems

    Ontario Health Services in Canada released a report last week on the number of people hospitalized in the province with heart problems following the mRNA vaccination.

    Published: September 5, 2021, 9:29 am

    Read more

    Vaccine makers shielded from all liability as adverse reactions pile up
    Forced Corona vaccination is ‘deliberate bodily harm’ says toxicology expert
    Pfizer/BioNTech animal trials show dangerous concentrations of nano-particles in organs
    Norway to pay vaccine damage compensation to AstraZeneca victims
    How safe are jabs if vaccinated still get infected and transmit Covid-19?
    Why are vaccine injuries not disclosed?
    Australian army veteran: 3 of the 24 000 children vaccinated at a stadium are now dead

    Share Tweet

    Toronto

    As of August 7, there were 106 cases of myocarditis or pericarditis diagnosed in people under the age of 25 in Ontario, just over half of all cases, the Toronto Sun reported.

    Some 31 cases occurred in 12 to 17 year olds and 75 in 18 to 24 year olds. The majority of the cases – 80 percent – were found in men.

    The report went on to say that more cases of myocarditis or pericarditis were reported after the second dose of an mRNA vaccine than after the first, especially after the Moderna vaccine.[Curious what the result of a 3rd shot will be]

    The health authority received a total of 314 reports. After an examination, there were over 200 such cases. In Ontario, 202 people with heart problems were admitted to the emergency room after vaccination, and 146 of them had to be hospitalized. Three of them even ended up in intensive care.

    Last month, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) announced that myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) and pericarditis (inflammation of the pericardium) were to be included in the package insert for Pfizer and Moderna Corona vaccines as possible side effects.

    Symptoms may include shortness of breath, a strong and possibly irregular heartbeat, and chest pain.

    The EudraVigilance database for 27 EU countries, announced that as of August 28, 2021, some 23 252 deaths and 2 189 537 vaccine injuries were reported following injections from the four experimental injections.

    Of the total recorded injuries, at least half (1 076 917) were serious injuries. “The severity provides information about the suspected undesirable effect; it can be classified as ‘serious’ if it is a medical event that leads to death, is life-threatening, requires an inpatient hospital stay, leads to another medically significant condition or extends an existing hospital stay, is prolonged or significant disability or invalidity or is a congenital abnormality/birth defect.”

    The injuries are affecting men who had been perfectly well before the injection, including well-known athletes and sportsmen.

  5. Herd immunity with a leaky vaccine that has at least three variants that are escaping the effect of the vaccine? How does that work? The leaky vaccine is why there is a current outbreak after treating all but a small margin of the public in Israel last spring. It provided an evolutionary advantage that placed Delta above the other strains. Delta+, and lambda are each claimed to be more immune to the vax than Delta. So how is heard immunity obtained in the face of these facts? Fair question for those experts who are so sure of their claims they don’t allow their names to be associated with such claptrap.