{"id":228006,"date":"2021-02-22T08:40:43","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T08:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=228006"},"modified":"2021-02-24T05:09:19","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T05:09:19","slug":"israel-reopens-economy-after-almost-half-of-its-population-get-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=228006","title":{"rendered":"Israel reopens economy after almost HALF of its population get shots"},"content":{"rendered":"

– But vaccine passports are mandatory to visit gyms, hotels and theaters \u2013 as Pfizer’s Covid vaccine stops 89.4% of transmission<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Rachel Bunyan \u2013 Daily Mail Feb 21, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n

\"\"<\/a>Israel has reopened its economy after almost half of its population has been vaccinated as it was revealed that Pfizer’s Covid jab stops 89.4 per cent of transmission.<\/p>\n

The country’s world-beating vaccination programme has led to the number of hospital patients over the age of 60 visiting to fall drastically compared to younger people.<\/p>\n

While shops are now open to all in Israel, the public must carry a vaccine passport if they want to visit gyms, hotels and theatres.<\/p>\n

The innovative ‘green pass’ is issued to those who have had both doses of the Pfizer vaccine more than a week prior or recovered from Covid-19 with presumed immunity.<\/p>\n

They will have their ‘Green Pass’ status displayed on a Health Ministry app that they must present at certain venues.<\/p>\n

The vaccine, which was rolled out in a national immunisation program that began on December 20, was 89.4 per cent effective at preventing laboratory-confirmed infections, according to a copy of a draft publication reported in Der Spiegel<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The fall in Israelis over the age of 60 attending hospital with Covid-19 is a dramatic show of how effective the Pfizer vaccine is, with Israel’s health ministry announcing that the risk of illness from Covid-19 dropped by 95.8 per cent among people who received both shots of Pfizer’s vaccine.<\/p>\n

The jab was also 98 per cent effective in preventing fever or breathing problems and 98.9 per cent effective in preventing hospitalisations and death, the ministry added.<\/p>\n

The positive steps have implications for Britain where data suggests that the roll-out of vaccines to the older age groups alongside lockdown restrictions are reducing death rates.<\/p>\n

‘The performance of the vaccine is really good news,’ epidemiologist Mark Woolhouse of Ediburgh University told The Observer. ‘You never quite know how clinical trials will translate in a true mass vaccination programme.<\/p>\n

‘But the numbers are looking very good. The vaccines protect very well against severe disease.’<\/p>\n

Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Israel offers a glimpse of what\u2019s in store for us. So while the economy is reopening, a vaccine passport is now mandatory to enter gyms, hotels and entertainment venues. Expect to see similar schemes in large part of the West soon <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228006"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228023,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228006\/revisions\/228023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}