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COVID: As coronavirus cases rise, is Israel on the verge of a fifth wave?
Israel currently has some 6,500 active COVID-19 cases, up from 5,000 just a few days before.
By ROSSELLA TERCATIN
Published: NOVEMBER 24, 2021 13:13
Updated: NOVEMBER 24, 2021 21:43
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However, according to Prof. Cyrille Cohen, head of the immunology lab at Bar-Ilan University and a member of the Health Ministry’s advisory committee for clinical trials on vaccines, talk about a fifth wave is not the correct way to frame the situation.
“We are in a very different situation compared with June, when we had almost no coronavirus cases in Israel,” he said. “We never managed to get to that point after the fourth wave.”
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According to Cohen, if there was still an illusion a few months ago that Israel could beat corona completely, it is time to acknowledge that this is not so.
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According to Cohen, the question of waning immunity should be looked at differently.
“Mine is just a hypothesis, but I think we need to look at the protection granted by vaccination as divided in two phases,” he said. “For a first period after the shot, we are highly protected both against infection and against serious symptoms. After some time, though, it might take a while for our immune system to activate its cellular memory against the virus, and therefore, one might get infected but still be protected against severe disease.”
Cohen said this might also be the case for the booster, noting that he believes that “this scenario is consistent with the data we are seeing.”...
https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wel...-jabbed-686857
COVID: As coronavirus cases rise, is Israel on the verge of a fifth wave?
Israel currently has some 6,500 active COVID-19 cases, up from 5,000 just a few days before.
By ROSSELLA TERCATIN
Published: NOVEMBER 24, 2021 13:13
Updated: NOVEMBER 24, 2021 21:43
...
However, according to Prof. Cyrille Cohen, head of the immunology lab at Bar-Ilan University and a member of the Health Ministry’s advisory committee for clinical trials on vaccines, talk about a fifth wave is not the correct way to frame the situation.
“We are in a very different situation compared with June, when we had almost no coronavirus cases in Israel,” he said. “We never managed to get to that point after the fourth wave.”
...
According to Cohen, if there was still an illusion a few months ago that Israel could beat corona completely, it is time to acknowledge that this is not so.
...
According to Cohen, the question of waning immunity should be looked at differently.
“Mine is just a hypothesis, but I think we need to look at the protection granted by vaccination as divided in two phases,” he said. “For a first period after the shot, we are highly protected both against infection and against serious symptoms. After some time, though, it might take a while for our immune system to activate its cellular memory against the virus, and therefore, one might get infected but still be protected against severe disease.”
Cohen said this might also be the case for the booster, noting that he believes that “this scenario is consistent with the data we are seeing.”...
