As Israel confirmed over 1,000 new daily COVID cases for the second day in a row on Tuesday – the highest level in two months – Health Ministry Director-General Prof. Nachman Ash warned Israel’s hospitals to prepare for the worst, Ynet reported.
In a letter entitled Preparation for a Fifth Wave, Ash stated that infection rates are expected to surpass that of previous waves and will be exacerbated by winter illnesses such as the flu and pneumonia.
“All hospitals must be prepared to receive COVID-19 patients on short notice and once their dedicated wards reach an 80% capacity they must be able to open additional wings to meet the demand,” Ash wrote.
Dr. Eran Rothman, the director of Rabin Medical Center, told Ynet that the hospitals are already treating an influx of patients ill with seasonal illnesses.
“The possibility of a surge in COVID cases in addition to flu and pneumonia will put a heavy strain on medical teams,” he said.
The number of hospitalized COVID patients is currently low, standing at 130, of whom 81 are seriously ill and 41 are ventilated.
The Health Ministry confirmed 170 new Omicron cases on Tuesday, doubling the total number of cases in one day to a total of 341.
There are another 807 cases that are suspected to be Omicron but have not yet been confirmed.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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The number of hospitalized COVID patients is currently low because Omicron causes low level symptoms, but wicked bennett is too ignorant to comprehend this, and is ordering hospitals to expect many patients and has closed the border to we authentic Jews & to בית-לחם birthday Pilgrims.
Experimental mRNA c19 shots have been shown to drastically exhaust the immune system, leaving its recipients unable to fight off typical maladies and even just colder weather. This is why these new outbreaks are being called the ‘pandemic of the vaccinated’.
Israel is the leader in vaccination yet they’re scared of the virus and want to make a fourth shot
Gives you a lot of hope in the vaccine
You know what they say idiocy is
It’s doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result
Just keep in mind this is the most vaccinated country in the world…
#EFFECTIVE
The c-19 shots are working wonderfully. We need to amp it up though to keep the momentum. One booster a day will keep the doctors away…
I can’t wait for this to be the boy who cried wolf.
Some of YWN’s brilliant meforshim will remember this and if things are great in a few weeks will say, ha, you see that the people in misrad habriut don’t know anything. But this is wrong – it is often the responsible thing to do to plan for worst case scenarios even if we know they are unlikely. Someone who buys insurance and ends up not needing it isn’t a silly person – they are planning for the, understandably unlikely, scenario which if comes about can be catastrophic. Planning is good!
This is such a load of propaganda and garbage. Look at the stats of places where the outbreak of omicron is in full force, no rise in death. This world has lost its bleeping mind.
Israel- rule number 1.
If you’re vaxxed single, double, triple…
Omicron will know where to find you.