{"id":1180470,"date":"2022-01-02T14:19:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-02T19:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1180470"},"modified":"2022-01-02T14:19:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T19:19:45","slug":"third-of-israelis-predicted-to-get-coronavirus-in-next-3-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/third-of-israelis-predicted-to-get-coronavirus-in-next-3-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Third of Israelis Predicted to Get Coronavirus in Next 3 Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthird-of-israelis-predicted-to-get-coronavirus-in-next-3-weeks%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1180470&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Up to a third of Israel\u2019s population will be infected with the Omicron strain over the next three weeks, a leading health expert and adviser to the Israeli government said on Sunday, and added many won\u2019t even know it because the country is quickly running out of test kits.<\/p>\n<p>The infection rate in Israel grew from under 1,000 to nearly 6,000 in a 10 day period, and is expected to soar to a record 25,000 by the end of the week. Active cases have tripled within the space of a week. However, hospitalisations have not maintained as dramatic a curve, increasing from 77 to 110 in the same period.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Prof. Eran Segal of the Weizmann Institute said that between 2-4 million out of Israel\u2019s total population of 9.5 million will eventually become infected with Omicron, but according to his estimation the number of serious cases occuring at the same time wouldn\u2019t be more than the current record of approximately 1,200.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe already expect to see a doubling, and then a doubling of the doubling, in the coming days,\u201d Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are watching and learning. We learn more every day and are also implementing lessons from the experiences of others, from London to New York. This is what the time we have bought is allowing us \u2013 the possibility of seeing the future.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_17096276\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Vaccine-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17096276\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Vaccine-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Michael, a 16-year-old teenager, receives a dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine at Clalit Health Services, in Israel&#039;s Mediterranean coastal city of Tel Aviv on January 23, 2021. - Israel began administering novel coronavirus vaccines to teenagers as it pushed ahead with its inoculation drive, with a quarter of the population now vaccinated, health officials said. (Photo by JACK GUEZ \/ AFP) (Photo by JACK GUEZ\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Michael, a 16-year-old teenager, receives a dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine at Clalit Health Services, in Israel\u2019s Mediterranean coastal city of Tel Aviv. (JACK GUEZ\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cOur goal has always been the same \u2013 to allow the economy to function as much as possible while protecting the most vulnerable among us,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>According to Segal, the restrictions that were previously in place to curb infections will be ineffective against Omicron, and infections will only cease when nearly everyone who could get infected gets infected.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Israel\u2019s Ministry of Health Director-General, Nachman Ash, said the country may be close to herd immunity.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThe price of herd immunity is very many infections, and that may be what will happen. The numbers need to be high to reach herd immunity, this is something that is possible,\u201d&nbsp;Ash <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/health-and-wellness\/coronavirus\/article-690364\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More than&nbsp;40 percent of new infections over the past week had received the booster shot of the Pfizer vaccine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up to a third of Israel\u2019s population will be infected with the Omicron strain over the next three weeks, a leading health expert and adviser to the Israeli government said &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1180470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1180470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1180470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1180470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1180470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}