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Israel fully prepared to vaccinate adolecents, health official says
Maccabi senior says vaccine rollout will begin once both FDA, Health Ministry give the go-ahead which may take between several weeks and 2 months, could be extended to younger children shortly after
Alexandra Lukash, Dr. Itay Gal |
Published: 04.06.21 , 18:24
A health official said Tuesday that Israel is prepared both logistically and operationally to start vaccinating adolescents against coronavirus as soon as it gets the go-ahead. We began with the large-scale and complicated campaign to vaccinate the adult population, which today has already become the norm, and we will begin vaccinating children as soon as we get the OK from the FDA and protocols from the Health Ministry, said Dr. Galit Kaufman, the Northern District director at Maccabi Healthcare Services.
Two and a half weeks later, more than 1.7 million Israelis have already received their second vaccine dose. Initial data has started emerging on the effects of being fully vaccinated â that is, at least a week after receiving the second dose. Hereâs some of that data from the Israeli Ministry of Health:
Over 60-year-olds:
Among them, 473 were diagnosed positive to Covid-19 (0.07%).
Among those positive, 38 were hospitalized.
11 were in serious condition.
Three were in critical condition.
Two died.
When comparing those 60 and over who are fully vaccinated with those 60 and over but not fully vaccinated â that is, received one dose/no dose at all â an 83% decrease in diagnosed cases was observed.