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Archived version of the article; "Vaccine doubters’ strange fixation with Israel", Washington Post, By Aaron Blake, July 22, 2021: https://archive.ph/nmd0qView attachment 2608382
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The most important point to take from the article is the incredibly low rate of hospitalizations and admissions to the ICU thanks to vaccines:
The most important numbers to consider, though, are not the overall case rates, but rather the serious cases. And those, too, remain extremely low — even lower than the case rates, relatively speaking.
Israel is averaging about 120 weekly hospital admissions, which is down from a peak of nearly 2,000 in January. So while cases are less than one-tenth of what they were then, hospitalizations are about one-sixteenth. And admissions to the intensive care unit are about one-twentieth, according to data collected by the University of Oxford.
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Hospitalization rate in Israel (Aaron Blake/Our World in Data)
The “percent of cases that turn critically ill is now 1.6%, compared to 4% at a similar stage in the 3rd wave when there were no vaccines,” tweeted Eran Segal, a computational biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science and government adviser.