You're theorizing that the initial 2 shots are too close together? If you're right, Canada is going to come out of this looking like geniuses.
Yes, that's an important point, and they're aware of that. They do mention somewhere that they know that these numbers underestimate the true infection rate, and that may be why they stopped recording infections and concentrated on the more accurate measurements of hospitalizations and deaths. Many of these were not actually hospitalized FOR covid, but for something else, and they got tested in hospital, so this did catch some asymptomatic infections.
in theory, it may be more to try to lessen the severity of a potential infection, rather than to prevent it completely.
לראשונה מפרוץ גל התחלואה הנוכחי: משרד הבריאות עדכן הבוקר (שלישי) כי יותר מ-700 מאומתים אובחנו אתמול בישראל. בנוסף, מספר החולים קשה עומד על 46 בני אדם מהם עשרה מונשמים, ומספר הנפטרים הוא 6,439.1.3% positive.
Breakdown of how many previously had COVID and/or had the vaccine?
Most amazing is that the Charedi and Arab cases are close to nil.The outbreak was started and spread by unvaccinated teenagers. I think the vast vast majority of charedi teens were infected in the numerous prior waves.
That is exactly what has been going on in the US also for the past year, no?
Right and therefore didn't have more than a few ripples.
revisionist history.
Not revisionist, because I've been saying this all along.
Any reason why Israel isn't first testing people for antibodies before determining whether to give a third shot(I understand lack of antibodies doesn't indicate waning immunity, but presence of antibodies should indicate continued immunity, shouldn't it?)
Delta's been around for a year?
I'm not talking about the details; I'm referring to Covid in general.
There's a significant concern that Delta is different than the other previous strains and will affect even those who have antibodies. The fact that the Arab and Chareidi communities seem unaffected (as of now) would be reassuring.