PeterA.McCullough
September 16, 2021
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Israel's Booster Program's Not Stopping Sky Rocketing Cases and Higher Number of Deaths—What's Going On?
Note that views expressed in this opinion article are the writer’s personal views and not necessarily those of TrialSite.
Starting in July Israel commenced the most aggressive booster vaccination program worldwide. The nation has one of the highest COVID-19 vaccination rates at 63%. What follows are some graphs depicting the situation there. Despite the booster program Israel now has one of the highest infection rates per million in the world.
1) Here is the URL for the site that I used the data to build the graphs: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus
2) Here is my first graph to show the % of the populations fully vaccinated, with Israel as of Sept 14th being 63%
Graph A
Israel=as of Sept 13th fully vaccinated population 63%, US 53%, India 12%
3) Here is the graph I built for the infections per million persons to normalize and I used Israel, the US to compare and India given India’s very low vaccination rate; as you see Israel has extensively more infections and the question is, what transpired post the implementation of the booster (3rd vaccine) program on August 1. It must have had a good result by turning the increase in cases downward. Right? Well, lets see:
Graph B
Israel as of Sept 14th, per million, 1254/million, US 457/million, India 22/million infections
So what do we see? Well, Israel has the highest vaccination rate as above (graph A), but highest daily cases (graph B)…if vaccine was working this would not be the case
On August 1st, Israel started its 3rd booster and the daily cases was 246/million on that day and US 240/million on that day, August 1st…so what happened over the next month?
Here is the official evidence that the booster started on Aug 1st in case you were wondering where I got that from:
“Israel — the first country to officially offer a third dose — began its COVID booster campaign on August 1, rolling it out to all those over age 60. It then gradually dropped the eligibility age, expanding it last week to anyone 30 and older. As of Sunday, over 1.9 million Israelis had received the third dose”.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-offers-covid-booster-shot-to-all-eligible-for-vaccine/
It seems, however, over the month of August and onwards (August 1st onwards), with the 3rd booster, Israel’s daily cases exploded; the booster is driving the new infections, the vaccine has failed.
In the month of August, Israel gave 2 million 3rd boosters but from August 1st you can see an explosion. We can only conclude that the vaccine is not working. The booster is a disaster, a failure. The rate of increasing cases remains steady and likely we wont be able to plot it any further as the increasing cases will go off the chart. The infections after 3rd booster show no sign of stopping.
If you look at the prior peek on Jan 18th 2021 (green dotted vertical line), Israel has 929/million infections so now with 3rd booster (Sept 14th), it is even dramatically higher than the former highest peak in January 2021 (green dotted vertical line).
Even when we compare Israel to nations in the vicinity and not the US or India, so if we added the middle eastern nations, we see Israel as the nation with the highest vaccination rate and now 3rd booster, has most cases relative to nations that are similar as to climate, location in middle east etc:
What does this mean? It means the booster has failed and may actually be driving infections (maybe facilitating antibodies), and actually causing enhanced transmission; this is a catastrophe and no 3rd booster must be given in the US; this is my argument for your consideration based on the data.
Graph C
This graph C has 3 key points:
1) the surge in infections in Israel post 3rd booster start Aug 1st 2021 is greater than the peak seen in the prior highest level (green dotted line, January 18th, 2021)
2) You can see that from August 1st 2021 to Sept 14th 2021, the infections are sky rocketing and the key issue is that the booster program was started on August 1st. It has failed. It is likely that the vaccinated are carrying the Delta and participating in the transmission of it and fuelling the transmission and it can be argued that the booster is driving this3) If you look at Israel and compare it to other middle eastern nations, you see the clear difference in infections and especially how Aug 1st 2021, their infections are going down while Israel’s escalated up and mainly due to the booster initiation
COVID-19 infections have skyrocketed in Israel post-Aug 1st with the implementation of the third shot booster program—the expectation would be by now cases would be on the decline. Israel has far greater than other similar nations geographically…and the new peak with this 4th wave post booster is even higher than the prior highest peak on Jan 18th, 2021.