As infections have surged in Israel in the last few weeks, the Israeli Government reports that the effectiveness of the Pfizer vaccine against infection has dropped to 64% from 94% the previous month. However, its effectiveness against serious disease is holding up. The Telegraph has more.
The vaccine had a 64% efficacy rate from early June until early July, the latest figures show, down from 94% a month earlier. The decrease coincides with a period in which the government reversed coronavirus restrictions and the delta variant spread through the country.
But the vaccine is still conferring strong protection against severe symptoms of the virus, with hospitalisation rates remaining low. The ministry’s data shows the vaccine’s efficacy in preventing hospitalisation was 93% from June 6th to July 3rd, compared to a 98% rate in the previous period.
On Monday, Israel reported the highest rate of new infections since the start of its most recent outbreaks, with the ministry recording 343 new cases over the past 24 hours.
Over half (55%) of the new infections are in fully vaccinated people, according to recent data. Since the country has fully vaccinated about 60% of the population, this suggests the vaccine is not protecting from infection very much at all (less even than the new stated efficacy figure of 64%). This is particularly so given that most of the infections are likely to be in socially and economically active younger people (like they are in the U.K.) who have lower vaccination rates, so that the vaccinated may even be suffering disproportionately more infections than the unvaccinated (the data is currently unavailable to confirm this).
The pattern of outbreaks in highly vaccinated countries such as Bahrain, Seychelles, Maldives and Chile and the fact that the vaccines don’t produce mucosal IgA antibodies has suggested for a while that their effectiveness against infection may have been exaggerated in studies. The idea that the IgG antibodies they produce in the blood should protect against progression to serious illness makes more sense and it is reassuring to see this data holding up.
The Israeli Government is now discussing the need for a third booster shot, and Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla has said people will “likely” need a third dose within 12 months of getting “fully vaccinated”. The Government may also consider limiting gathering sizes and reintroducing the controversial “Green Pass” vaccine apartheid system.
However, if a highly vaccinated country like Israel cannot return to normal without constant threat of new restrictions you have to wonder if anyone can. At some point leaders will need to accept that they have done all they can to guard the vulnerable against serious illness and death and remember that there is more to life than avoiding COVID-19.
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Who actually received the 37 billion? Show me the receipts!
I don’t believe that money was spent for the purposes claimed. Where did it actually end up?
It’s hard to fathom where it all can have gone
A lot of people find it difficult to fathom how much £37Bn is. I always like to type it out with all the zeros. £37,000,000,000.
At the very least we want a detailed report breaking down this obscene waste of taxpayers money.
Probably up some uber-rich people’s noses, lol.
I have stated quite a few times that I believe much of this expenditure was used to install traffic measures on our roads and in due course these will be revealed.
Government at both local and national level are extremely adept at hiding expenditure which they do not want the public to be aware of. If £25 billion of T & T had been declared spent on vehicle trafficking and transport regulatory measures there might have been uproar.
Equally, it’s possible much of the money was redirected to ‘special people.’ The grotesque amounts squandered were not squandered without purpose. The aim was and is to bankrupt the country. C1984 provided the perfect initial cover for such larceny. Chunt’s recent budget nudged the destruction upwards a notch. I expect the economy will be destroyed within twelve months and at that point we will be declared bankrupt and then ‘sold’ to the IMF or BIS, or some such.
As the imposition of all NPI’s was initially sold on the grounds that they would protect public health – they didn’t – so too are all the grotesque tax impositions. Far from helping the economy recover from the devastation that Fishy wrecked, Chunt’s efforts will finally destroy the UK.
It did accomplish something – for the elite. At our expense, they learned some valuable lessons to be able force digital IDs on the population. They perhaps even established some framework that can be used in future.
This will all fit in with the tyrannical statement from the G20 here. Everybody must read this!
See the World Council for Health’s response here.
Question 7: Does anyone trust the usual suspects any more, for any reason, without independent assessments and proper consultation?
Apart from that, it’s a good article. It appears to many of us that they are not making use of “solid evidence of what works”. Are they actually being somewhat selective with the truth, to the benefit of certain industries?
Exactly. Small change for that and them in that regard.
Plus, they and their cronies could fill their coffers up a bit more on the chosen way to the upcoming total implosion.
That reply was meant for Mike Austin.
“selective with the truth,”
….surely not. How dare you!
The Tories FTX.
In all respects:
The money isn’t gone.
It’s just gone to and owned by someone else now.
The aim with most Covid measures seems to have been to shovel public money to the private sector, frighten people, control them and bully them into taking experimental drugs they didn’t need, and usher in a new era of public health bio security totalitarianism.
They succeeded.
“Test and trace cost 37 billion and achieved nothing..” Or did it….?
“Hidden in plain sight, the genome sequencing industry is a beast of huge scale. Globally, the industry is already worth billions of pounds, and it is expected to grow rapidly from this already immense financial base. The top ten genome sequencing companies alone had a value of over £635,000,000,000 in 2020.
The trail led to a very large and murky pond of genome sequencing and related companies, such as Grail, the Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK Biobank, TwinsUK, Amgen, the Mayo Clinic and Genomics England — all of which overlaps with gene editing technology such as CRISPR. Governments and military also come into the picture, with ARIA and ARPA in the UK and DARPA in the USA. British academia is also well entrenched in the system, with Oxford University and Imperial College London being just two of the many institutions at the forefront.”
https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/pcr-testing-and-the-genome-beast
And in the US the CDC just came right out and admitted to it;
https://thelibertyloft.com/2022/03/03/cdc-admits-it-has-collected-dna-from-pcr-tests/
Thanks for that Mogs.
I’ve not watched the whole video yet but it’s certainly interesting and a revelation. Also I trust Brian Gerrish. He seems not prone to accepting any old sensationalist rumour as fact before he checks out the evidence fully first. Bit like Ivor Cummins in that regard. Nurse Debbie seems to have her head screwed on too.
I am a big fan of all the UK Column team. They practice proper journalism and when they have something to say it is always backed up with evidence. I have been a subscriber for about two years now.
Utterly reliable.
Yes we have to share and support our trusted sources. That’s why we see the same names getting shared around here and linked to repeatedly. My list of legit people is growing actually.
This is definitely a factor but beyond shear crony grift and DNA harvesting the third purpose was to get the technological framework for Digital Biometric IDs and fourthly to get the public accustomed to allowing the state to monitor their whereabouts and control their actions up to snd including home incarceration.
Former Health Secretary Hancock has a financial interest in the gene sequencing companies….
Always, always “Cui bono?”
Indeed, it was basically shutting the barn door long after the horse had bolted.
And let’s not forget that our great Conservative leader at the time originally wanted to sink 3x as much, £100bln, into Operation Moonsh*t, which was later folded and ‘integrated’ into T&T.
The incubation period for respiratory viruses in the host before shedding is about 24 hours. During this time the individual is asymptomatic. Next 24 hours symptoms may be noticed and the individual will be infectious for about 2 – 3 days. (Just like Colds & ‘flu.)
A PCR Test for screening is obsolete immediately after the specimen is taken, since the individual can be infected any time until the test comes back, and even if negative is therefore no guarantee they are infection free. For it to work it should be repeated every 12 hours at least.
In infected asymptomatic and infected symptomatic individuals by the time the PCR Test is carried out and test results come back, 24 to 48 hours or longer will have elapsed during most of which time the individual would have been infectious. Self-isolating after positive PCR Test = closing stable door after horse has bolted, particularly since after 4 days even though viral fragments may be detected and symptoms remaining, that person is no longer infectious.
According to Farr’s Law, deaths peaked and turned downward in the first week of March 2020, therefore infections peaked and turned downward in the first week of February. January was the big spreader month.
Doing anything after first week of February 2020 was futile, counterproductive and a gross waste of money, since the epidemic was over by March, not least because CoV 2 is a seasonal virus and wanes naturally as Winter recedes.
The real question is why none of the experts and ‘The Science’ worshipping deadbeats in Government knew these things. Ditto all the other clowns around the World except Sweden and Florida.
“The real question is why none of the experts and ‘The Science’ worshipping deadbeats in Government knew these things.”
The $cience et al did know these things JXB, without any doubt but the purpose behind all government actions was not protection of public health, in fact just the opposite, but to scare the population witless.
Covid was the excuse to unleash the poisons, whoops “vaccines” which have been developed to maim and kill and also open the gateway to digital ID, CBDC and subsequent enslavement of the masses.
Agreed. We can’t ever let them off the hook by assuming these people in authority didn’t know. Big mistake. On the contrary, they know a damnedsite more than us! They aren’t amateurs or sackless ignoramuses. It was all strategy. Think about it, none of it had any science underpinning it. Not the masks, distancing, lockdowns or tests. That’s why they should all be ditched once and for all but we know why they won’t.
Some of the early public announcements, rather like 2019 election campaigning ones (soon after the 2019 GE), gave the impression that the likes of Vallance et al were being somewhat reassuring. It was along the lines of “don’t worry about it too much….”. But then, they changed tack for whatever reason.
I think they did know pretty much what you describe, but were hoodwinked into the new religion, to hold on to their jobs.
Maybe they were not read into the lab leak story until just before the u-turn
the virus was circulating throughout most of 2019, the study of faeces shows.
Wow our leaders must be very accident prone to make all these ‘mistakes’ what with all the intelligence gathering operations they are the beneficiaries off.
No they have been lying and this was required for a different purpose ,i.e. to build the digital architecture to implement digital currencies and social scoring and to turn us all into slaves and serfs.
Similarly with the ‘climate crisis’. Insert that into the above paragraph.
Indeed. Climate change (or variation) is normal; lack of maintenance and investment (or bad investment, building things in the wrong place) is the real hazard. Poor management and dodgy policies are the real crisis.
It can feed directly into social scoring by creating a spurious reason for measuring each person’s ‘carbon emissions’. It can increase dependence on the state by closing down farms to ‘save carbon’ and cutting back on the precious fossil fuel store of wealth. All roads lead to a communist oligarchy.
Correct.
Why did the PCR testers not reveal the number of cycles they were using or when they did why was it so high as to generate 99.99% false positives ? Even if the test was valid in the first place which it wasn’t.
idiots. It was like trying to eradicate an ant nest with a pair of tweezers while wearing oven gloves.
Whilst blindfolded?
Crucially this kind of contact tracing is not needed for something as generally harmless as Covid
The only pandemic was that of panic among the ignorant so called ruling classes
Sceptical doctor alert:
In medicine, a test is only of use if it leads to a pharmaceutical company making an obscene amount of money.
Covid is but one example.
Cholesterol testing is in the same league, where the majority of patients on statins don’t actually need them.
The treatment algorithms, linked to widespread testing, are designed by Big Pharma, with the doctors playing the role of useful idiots.
That’s spot on Dr G. Unfortunately, for many of us it took the Scamdemic to make us realise this.
“Despite all the resources thrown at it, Test and Trace did not show one measurable difference in the outcomes of the pandemic”, yet the ‘Test & Treat’ program in Uttar Pradesh State in India was a great success. The difference? Test & Treat was a kit with a test & medicines. If the test was positive, they and their household took the preventative/early treatment therapeutics, including Ivermectin. There were no sanctions for testing positive, so every incentive to use the kit, resulting in the state being able to declare itself covid-free. The cost? A fraction of Test & Trace’s £37Bn and no lockdowns.
The PCR test is fraudulent. It does not do what the public are told it does. It has never been calibrated against a baseline isolate, is carried out at 40+ cycles & gives a dirty, corrupted signal. Once that is understood, everything else which flows from these tests can be seen for what they are – fraud, tyranny & the means to control a gullible, scientifically illiterate population (politicians & medical staff included). Thank goodness for the awkward squad who were able to see through this.
The newest US nuclear powered aircraft carrier Gerald R Ford was recently completed. It took thousands of people 6 years to build and 4 more years to commission. It is the most sophisticated warship afloat. The cost 13.5 billion dollars. It is impossible to spend £37 billion in the 2 years on a process and phone app. There is only one way to do that, fraud. A complete audit needs to be done on this abuse and incompetence alone by itself. This abuse is the same as profiteering during times of war. This cannot be covered up.
First class comparison.
I thought that the HoC Public Accounts Comittee is a powerful part of our Government system. I would have thought by now there would have been a very thorough investigation by this Comittee on where this sum of £37 billion pounds has actually gone to. Did any of it get sent to the WEF?
I assume that (without any actual evidence at this stage) the driver of this project was one Matt Hancock – Health Secretary – who several years earlier set up the HoC all party group on ‘The Fourth Industrial Revolution’ pushed by crazed technology fanatic Klaus Schwab, who dreams up new problems every day and declares they can all be fixed by technology.
I would suggest that Hancock having no training in technology at all jumped at the chance to do his masters bidding by pushing as hard as possible for this TnT technological ‘fix’ for the pandemic, and somehow got the money to do it.