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COVID-19: Lack of Plan Underpins Israel COVID Strategy – Analysis

Seth J. Frantzman

Jerusalem Post, Jan. 10, 2022

“…the lack of a strategy by the government grows in relevance every day.”

Israel continued its roller-coaster ride of COVID test lines and large numbers of new cases as the government searches for a strategy to deal with our recent crisis.

While some of the chaos that underpins the current approach to the pandemic is due to the nature of the virus itself, with new variants and transmission rates and apparent waning immunity from vaccines, the overall chaos is due to lack of clear strategy. This makes us feel we are perpetually living in March 2020, when we first entered the process of lockdowns and chaos.

However, we’ve learned a lot in two years. Israel was the first country to roll out mass vaccinations. What we learned from that is that the success of vaccines and people waiting patiently to get them quickly waned as we entered the diminishing returns of trying to get the vaccine numbers up to 90% of those eligible.

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