Israel does not rule out putting the fourth dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. It was advanced today by the country’s Prime Minister of Health. In Israel, 42% of the population already has the third dose of the Covid-19 vaccine booster, but authorities are seeing that it could be insufficient. A tenth of the infections there already had the third dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.
Israel’s Minister of Health, Nitzan Howowitz, He explained that the country’s authorities have not ruled out the possibility of administering a fourth dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. This comes amid warnings from experts about a possible fifth wave of the coronavirus pandemic in the country.
“It is not irrational to think that we will need a fourth (dose of the) vaccine,” he indicated in an interview with Channel 12 television, although the greatest concern derives from children not yet vaccinated. The country began last Wednesday, November 24, to vaccinate all children over the age of five against the coronavirus.
This comes after interest rates are being recorded. contagion between the minor groups, according to the newspaper ‘The Times of Israel’. “We are not between waves, we are at the beginning of a new wave,” said the person in charge of the response to the pandemic in Israel, Salma Zarka, in a statement granted to the public broadcaster Kan on Wednesday.
The third dose lowers the risk of contagion of Covid-19
In late August, the Israeli Ministry of Health recommended administering the third dose of the anticovid vaccine to over 12 years. It was one of the first countries to do so. Almost 3 months after that suggestion, the data support the success of the immunization campaign against the coronavirus in the country.
A study of the Harvard University has revealed that the booster dose reduced the risk of hospitalizations by 93% and deaths by 81%. The investigation It was carried out between the months of July and September, coinciding with the fourth wave of coronavirus infections in Israel.
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