Israel reported 423 new cases of Covid-19 yesterday. They are up to 4,097 total cases considered active. They're up to 81 people in the hospitalized with 47 of those cases considered seriously ill. 13 people are on ventilators. Israel has now had 7 people die this week after going nearly 3 weeks without a death prior to the Delta wave hitting.
@Infoseepage What I'm curious about is, are those people on ventilators and those deaths all unvaccinated people?
@trinsec I do know that one of the people who died recent, a man in his 40's was unvaccinated.
Of the people in the last month to end up on ventilators, 12 of them we under the age of 60 and one was in the 20-29 age bracket.
@Infoseepage The reason I was wondering is, if everybody there who is in trouble are unvaccinated, then herd immunity doesn't seem to be working. The only solution would be for everybody to be vaccinated. But so far that's not certain I understand.
@trinsec The situation is already shaping up differently in less vaccinated societies like the US, where you have less vaccine uptake across a range of age groups. I know one doctor working in Springfield (where they've got 130+ hospitalized cases) said something to the effect of "The first few waves our ICUs were filled mostly with minorities and people with high contact jobs. Today, they are filled almost entirely with people who've refused vaccination."
@Infoseepage Thanks for the insight, it's what I expected would happen. I guess we'll be facing this kind of situation here soon as well. The only people I feel for are the ones who simply cannot be vaccinated because of, for example, an auto-immune illness or something. But for people like one of my coworkers who claim 'this is all a big experiment, I refuse to be part of it' I won't feel pity if they get in trouble. :P
There's more and more exposure in the media here about young used-to-be-fit people having Long Covid and can barely do anything anymore.
I suspect we might have like 25-33% of people refusing to vaccinate.
