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Shaare Zedek hospital team members wearing safety gear as they work in the coronavirus ward on January 27 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
1. Back on the up and up: Four weeks into Israel’s third lockdown, not only is the infection rate not going down, there are signs it may be going up.
The Ynet news site reports that the R0, or reproductive value, of the coronavirus pathogen is inching up toward 1, the number at which infection numbers rise again, and has reached it already if you count only non-Haredi Jews. (Haredi Jews actually have the lowest R0, more on that below.)