Are Israeli hospitals really overloaded with unvaccinated COVID patients? According to Prof. Yaakov Jerris, director of Ichilov Hospitalโs coronavirus ward, the situation is completely opposite.
โRight now, most of our severe cases are vaccinated,โ Jerris told Channel 13 News. โThey had at least three injections. Between seventy and eighty percent of the serious cases are vaccinated.
So, the vaccine has no significance regarding severe illness, which is why just twenty to twenty-five percent of our patients are unvaccinated.โ
Jerris also revealed some of the confusion in reporting cases. Speaking at a cabinet meeting on Sunday, he told ministers, โDefining a serious patient is problematic.
For example, a patient with a chronic lung disease always had a low level of oxygen, but now he has a positive coronavirus test result which technically makes him a โserious coronavirus patient,โ but thatโs not accurate.
The patient is only in a difficult condition because he has a serious underlying illness.โ
โ70-80% of the serious cases are vaccinated. They had at least three injections. The vaccine has no significance regarding severe illness” said Prof Yaakov Jerris, director of Ichilov Hospitalโs coronavirus ward. israelnationalnews.com/news/321674