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Faced with the fourth wave of the coronavirus in Israel caused by the Delta variant, the health authorities have given the green light to the third dose of the vaccine to those over 60 years of age, thus becoming the first country to provide booster vaccination in the world.

The decision comes 15 days after he inoculated the third dose to the immunosuppressed to strengthen their defenses.

The president of Israel, Isaac Herzog (60) is the first to receive the third vaccine this Friday. "

Our policy is to safeguard life and safeguard the daily routine. To allow Israel to remain open, we must ensure that the vaccination rate beats the pandemic. There is a deterioration of the body's immunity over time and the purpose of this added dose is to reinforce it again ", said tonight Prime Minister Naftali Bennett who has appealed to the elderly to get vaccinated again.

Hours before, the director general of the Ministry of Health, Professor Nachman Ash had informed the Israeli medical mutuals that they can start the third vaccine campaign from Sunday and only those over 60 who received the second at least five years ago. months.

Given the increase in daily cases to more than 2,000 this week, the Health Expert Committee met Wednesday night to decide whether to bet on the third inoculation. For one thing, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the US FDA have not yet recommended it. On the other hand,

the effectiveness of the Pfizer vaccine in preventing serious cases was reduced from 97% to 81% in people over 60 who were vaccinated in January

. The increase in seriously ill patients (from a few dozen at the beginning of July to 159) especially among the most veteran has been key to taking such a daring step.

"We do not know everything and I admit that it is a very important medical dilemma but we believe that it is a safe decision considering that the immunosuppressed who received the third dose have reacted well," says Dr Arnon Shajar, one of the 57 experts who They faced several dilemmas: the age of those vaccinated for the third time (from 60 or 70), if they continue with Pfizer or use Moderna and if it is not better to wait for the new updated Pfizer vaccine against the Delta variant.


In this way, the nation that made the fastest inoculation and also the first to vaccinate the elderly is once again serving as Pfizer's world laboratory. A few days ago, Israel also became the first to authorize the injection of the dose to seriously ill children between the ages of 5 and 11.

The pharmaceutical company has guaranteed Israel that it will not be short of vaccines in the coming months.

"I support the decision to give a third dose to those over 60 years of age to protect them due to reduced immunity," says Dr. Galia Rahav (Sheba Hospital) leading the booster vaccine campaign to more than 700 people belonging to to the group with the highest immunological risk, whose defenses were significantly reduced with time and the scourge of Delta. However, Rahav affirms that the priority is to convince those who have not yet wanted to be vaccinated. And they are not few.

Thanks to a massive vaccination that made the pandemic forget (60% have the complete guideline), Israel was one of the first countries to remove their mask in the open. But the emergence of the most contagious variant has brought to light a fact installed in the shadow of the successful Israeli vaccination:

More than a million people decided not to get vaccinated.

Among them, some 200,000 are over 50 years old. Since March last year, 6,466 people have died in Israel due to the coronavirus.

This Thursday came into force the obligation to present the "green pass" -demonstration of having been vaccinated, being cured or negative results of a test- to access places and events with more than 100 attendees. Despite everything, the new government of Bennett and Yair Lapid adopts a strategy much less conducive to constraints than the previous one of Benjamin Netanyahu. The big difference, however, is that until the first months of 2021 Israel did not have the great vaccination shield.

"Our plan is to provide three defensive layers. Defense to the elderly population and the most vulnerable, defense through masks and defense through vaccines," Bennett announced that he will accompany his mother to receive the third dose and encourage those over 60 to strengthen their defenses in a measure that will be closely followed by pharmaceutical companies and many countries.

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