→ British people will get to have faces again soon. Earlier this month, Professor Ehud Qimron, head of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Tel Aviv University, published an open letter harshly criticizing Israel’s Ministry of Health and declaring, “There is currently no medical emergency, but you have been cultivating such a condition for two years now because of lust for power, budgets, and control.” Only through natural exposure when protected with vaccines do I see this virus becoming endemic.” Cohen is not the only prominent Israeli health official to criticize his government’s policies recently. It’s not an objective,” Cohen said, clarifying a statement he made last month, previously noted in The Scroll, that the current pandemic wave “might end when a large number of people will be infected. Both can get infected with a virus, more or less at the same pace.” In light of that, Cohen argues that the vaccine passport model used to restrict access to public spaces in Israel should be ended and that vaccination should be a personal choice. “Especially with Omicron,” Cohen said, “where we don’t see virtually any difference, there is a very narrow gap between people vaccinated and non-vaccinated. But contrary to the initial claims of drug companies and public health experts in both Israel and the United States, the vaccines, while highly effective at reducing the risk of serious illness in infected people, were ineffective at preventing transmission of the virus, particularly its highly infectious strains. Israeli health officials originally expected the arrival of COVID-19 vaccines to mean the end of the pandemic, according to Cohen, who said his colleagues danced for joy when the vaccines were first distributed.
“The biggest mistake of the pandemic in Israel was closing schools,” Cyrille Cohen, who heads the immunology department at Bar Ilan University, told the British publication UnHerd in an interview published Tuesday.
A top Israeli immunologist and senior adviser to the government on vaccines now admits that Israel made serious mistakes in its pandemic policies, and is calling for a different approach.
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