The country’s response to a record Omicron surge is not exactly what you would expect
It’s not hard to see why. The country’s vaccine uptake was high. Most vaccinated Israelis were also boosted, and the health ministry had begun offering a second booster to the most vulnerable residents. Masks were required in indoor public spaces, and a vaccine card was required to enter the most crowded
“Omicron hits everyone, whether vaccinated or not,” Gili Regev-Yochay, a Harvard epidemiologist, told The Daily Beast. But hospitalizations and deaths haven’t risen nearly as much as cases. That disconnect—“decoupling,” epidemiologists call it—helps explain Israel’s seemingly counterintuitive response to the currentThe country did… nothing. That response, or lack of one, could signal a new attitude toward COVID in Israel and similar countries.
There’s obvious risk in declaring COVID endemic at this point. But Omicron for all its transmissibility isn’t as lethal as earlier lineages—nor does it significantly reduce the effectiveness of a boosted vaccine. A lineage thatevade the vaccines might change a lot of minds, and fast. But for now, it looks like Israel is getting ready to add COVID to the long list of diseases Israelis consider a daily risk, but an acceptable one. Chicken pox. West Nile fever. The flu.
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