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struggle4progress

(118,237 posts)
Thu Sep 30, 2021, 05:08 AM Sep 2021

Unvaccinated fuel Israel's COVID crisis

Sam Sokol
Sep. 30, 2021 9:20 AM

Unvaccinated adults now account for the majority of severe COVID-19 cases and fatalities in Israel, with over six of every 10 new severe cases recorded on Tuesday linked to this group.

Around 15 percent of eligible Israelis over the age of 12 (some 1,105,000 people) are still unvaccinated. Of this group, 10 percent (755,000 people) are over the age of 20 and constitute nearly all of the country’s serious cases and deaths ...

The most prominent common denominator among seriously ill patients currently filling up Israel’s coronavirus wards and intensive care units is that they are not vaccinated against COVID. Most of them are drawn from among the roughly 240,000 unvaccinated Israelis between the ages of 40 and 60. A smaller portion of seriously ill patients come from the 400,000 unvaccinated people aged between 20 and 40 ...

... the death rate among unvaccinated people over the age of 60 stood at 6.3 per 100,000, compared to 1.3 for double-vaccinated people and 0.1 for those who received a booster shot ...

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/these-unvaccinated-10-fuel-israel-s-covid-crisis-1.10251639

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Unvaccinated fuel Israel's COVID crisis (Original Post) struggle4progress Sep 2021 OP
That small percentage of covidiots... SergeStorms Sep 2021 #1
On a bright side, boosters are making vaccinated LisaL Sep 2021 #2
Which demographic are the unvaccinated? no_hypocrisy Sep 2021 #3
Bennett urges Arab Israelis to get vaccinated: 'Rates are too low' Klaralven Sep 2021 #4

SergeStorms

(19,188 posts)
1. That small percentage of covidiots...
Thu Sep 30, 2021, 05:41 AM
Sep 2021

are holding the rest of Isreal's population hostage.

The same in the U.S., only a larger and much more vocal group of covidiots are doing the same here.

If those people aren't domestic terrorists, I don't know what else they should be called. They're certainly not "patriots", as they'd like to be called.

Anyone who is actively putting the majority of the population in danger should be detained, placed in a segregated "covidiot" area, and either be forced to vaccinate themselves, or remain in containment until they succumb from the great "hoax" being perpetrated on the country.

They should not be allowed to endanger the vast majority of the population. Sorry about your supposed rights. You don't have the right to infect everyone else. Sorry.

no_hypocrisy

(46,040 posts)
3. Which demographic are the unvaccinated?
Thu Sep 30, 2021, 06:15 AM
Sep 2021

Fundamentalists or Palestinians. The latter have not been offered the same opportunity to get the vaccines.

 

Klaralven

(7,510 posts)
4. Bennett urges Arab Israelis to get vaccinated: 'Rates are too low'
Thu Sep 30, 2021, 07:05 AM
Sep 2021
Minority lags with some 51% inoculated, compared to 66% of all Israeli citizens; though only one Arab town among 26 in country designated as ‘red’ area


https://www.timesofisrael.com/bennett-urges-arab-israelis-to-get-vaccinated-rates-are-too-low/

https://graphics.reuters.com/world-coronavirus-tracker-and-maps/countries-and-territories/israel/

https://graphics.reuters.com/world-coronavirus-tracker-and-maps/countries-and-territories/palestinian-territories/

Palestinian territories are reported separately from Israel. Vaccination rates are low, about 21%.

Vaccination rates among Israeli Arabs are lower than for all Israelis, but ultraorthodox Jews are even lower. .

Israel Vaccinated Its Population Against COVID at an Astonishing Rate, but Some Groups Are Left Behind

According to vaccination data provided to Haaretz by the Health Ministry, as of August 16, 343,971 people out of an ultra-Orthodox population of 959,185 (36%) have received at least one dose of the vaccine, while 888,367 out of an Arab population of 1,954,460 (45%) have received one or more dose.


https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-s-astonishing-covid-vaccination-drive-left-some-groups-behind-1.10148007
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