https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/321674
Are Israeli hospitals really overloaded with unvaccinated COVID patients? According to Prof. Yaakov Jerris, director of Ichilov Hospital’s coronavirus ward, the situation is completely opposite.
“Right now, most of our severe cases are vaccinated,” Jerris told Channel 13 News. “They had at least three injections. Between seventy and eighty percent of the serious cases are vaccinated. So, the vaccine has no significance regarding severe illness, which is why just twenty to twenty-five percent of our patients are unvaccinated.”
Jerris also revealed some of the confusion in reporting cases. Speaking at a cabinet meeting on Sunday, he told ministers, “Defining a serious patient is problematic. For example, a patient with a chronic lung disease always had a low level of oxygen, but now he has a positive coronavirus test result which technically makes him a ‘serious coronavirus patient,’ but that’s not accurate. The patient is only in a difficult condition because he has a serious underlying illness.”
Here in Canada the data is similarly confusing but here's what seems to be coming out
ReplyDelete1) Yes, there are a lot more vaccinated people in hospital but 90% of the country is vaccinated so if 1% of 900 000 get sick, that's way more than 5% of 100 000.
2) Lots of "CoVID cases" are people who went in with something else but happened to have CoVID or worse, caught it while in hospital so yes, they're CoVID patients but that's not why they're there.