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More than a third of Israel’s population has been vaccinated against the new crown. The vaccination rate ranks first in the world, making the world look to the world. However, does a high vaccination rate mean successful epidemic prevention? At least polls show that the majority of Israelis are dissatisfied with the government’s epidemic prevention work, and only 24% of people approve of the government’s epidemic prevention performance.
According to NBC News, Israel has vaccinated a third of the country’s population and around 3 million people against the new crown in about a month. So far, more than 80% of the elderly over the age of 60 have been vaccinated.
While the world is admiring the high efficiency of Israel’s vaccine delivery, a survey recently released by the Israel Institute of Democracy shows that only 24% of the Israeli people approve of the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The report noted that despite the extremely high rate of vaccination in Israel, it also has the third highest rate of new corona infection in the world. When Israel was in full swing to promote vaccination in January, 1,433 people died of new corona pneumonia in the same month. According to global epidemic statistics from Johns Hopkins University, since the outbreak of new corona pneumonia, more than 5,000 people have died in Israel. In other words, a third of the dead have died in January.
Experts also noted that Israel’s vaccination plan is not as effective as originally hoped in terms of reducing the infection rate of the new crown, especially even though around 35% of people have received the first dose of the vaccine, only 20% of them have received two doses of vaccine. Furthermore, according to Itamar Grotto, Deputy Director General of Israel’s Ministry of Health, a large portion of confirmed cases in Israel are related to the most contagious British variant of the virus, and current vaccines can be difficult to control effectively.
Israel was able to successfully carry out large-scale vaccination, in addition to the small country and population, and the central government-coordinated health care system, the upcoming re-election campaign of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on March 23 is also the main reason In previous general elections, Netanyahu faced lawsuits for corruption. Since the outbreak of the epidemic, thousands of Israelis have been killed, and the Israeli people have also criticized him for not getting the country safely through the crisis.
The Israeli court is about to hear Netanyahu’s corruption lawsuit on the 8th. The report notes that Netanyahu appears to not only hope that the vaccination will help Israel wake up from the crisis, but also hopes that he will be re-elected.
Opposition Orly Almog noted that Netanyahu believes the vaccine plan will help him win the elections again, “but I don’t think so, because the situation in Israel has only gotten worse.”
Not only did critics of the opposition, 200 leading Israeli doctors and scientists, including former health ministers, leading hospitals, deans of medical schools and Nobel Prize winners, also publicly criticized the government for inadequate prevention of the epidemic. The most violent part of these experts “The criticisms were the measures of national closure. They believe that this measure is not only unnecessary, but also ineffective.”
The report noted that Israel is one of the countries in the world with the most stringent and longest period to implement national lockdown measures. Many people have been asked to stay home for four consecutive months. In December 2020, Israel became the third time to implement a city lockdown in the country.
Experts criticized Yoav Yehezkelli, who helped plan Israel’s anti-epidemic policy, saying that the blockade can be used in extreme conditions where the health system is complete, such as China or Italy in the early stages of the epidemic, but the Israel’s health system never has. been on the brink of collapse.
Ronit Calderon-Margalit, professor of epidemiology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, said that the first two rounds of blockade measures have effectively reduced mortality and morbidity, but the government does not have a clear strategy for the mechanism to lift the blockade and Response method She said bluntly that the Israeli government “wasted” the weapon of the city closure.
The chairman of Israel’s National Panel of Anti-Epidemic Experts, Ran Balicer, also bluntly said: “The previous predictions were wrong. The magical power that closed the city is dead.”
(Zhongshi News Network)
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