Israeli lawmakers are keen to avoid another lockdown after overseeing one of the world's fastest vaccination drives.
vaccine appeared to become less effective at preventing Covid-19 transmission over time, Israel's vaccination booster program seemed to be making "a huge difference."
"I guess in a few weeks we will see a huge decline in the disease because of the third vaccination doses," he said. "If you look at the over 60s, which made up most of the severely ill people, they were around four or five times less likely to get severe disease with the delta [after their second dose]. But now they're more than tenfold less likely to get severe disease after the third shot.
This, he added, was likely to be because of the fresh antibodies produced in people who received a third dose of the vaccine. It's thought that a decline in antibodies over timeseen in people who have been given two doses of a Covid-19 shot, but no vaccine is ever 100% effective at preventing a disease.
"We now have a very rapid pace of third vaccinations, so I would guess that the results will be seen very clearly, and in the near future we will see an overall decline of severe disease and of disease [in general]," Schreiber said.Israeli lawmakers are keen to avoid the reintroduction of draconian measures and are urging people eligible for any dose of the vaccine to get their shot.
Schreiber also said he believed the vaccination warranted an end to lockdown measures, even in spite of the high numbers of breakthrough cases seen in Israel and elsewhere."If you can reduce the numbers of severely ill people enough to not overload the system, and if you can give reasonably good treatment to these people — and the treatment is better now — then lockdown is really not a good solution.
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