https://www.ynetnews.com/article/ryMNjXSlu
The ministry said 5,140 people tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday after 54,737 tests had been conducted, bringing the infection rate to 9.7%. The infection rate in the ultra-Orthodox sector is much higher at 20.1%.
At least 1,140 patients are in serious condition, of whom 315 are ventilated. Health officials said 30.6% of patients hospitalized in serious condition are below the age of 59.
In addition, 167 patients in their 50s are hospitalized in serious condition, 99 patients in their 40s, 50 in their 30s, 20 patients in their 20s and six children are currently being treated in hospitals after developing complications from COVID.
Assuming the death rate per infected is uniform across sectors :
ReplyDeleteHareidi population is 10-13% of Israel's total, thus approximately 1 million.
If 1500 died in January, that would be approx 150 per million across the nation, but this figure is tragically double, I.e. 300 per million in the hareidi sector. Since there are approximately 1 million in that sector, it also the real number of covid deaths - 300.
How preventable could the excess number of deaths have been?
More vaccine take up, greater adherence to dina malchuta, and avoidance of large gatherings such as the abomination funerals yesterday. Such measures could reduce the number of deaths, and , the alleged argument of the chazon ish that "anyone who says more Jews could have been saved in the holocaust is an apikores" was and is nonsense.