Tel Aviv news could lead to US civil war and drop in oil price to $ 30 a barrel
Are all hopes in Sputnik V?
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Half of Israel’s adult population was recently infected with the delta variant of Covid-19, and they were fully vaccinated with Pfizer. The epidemic broke out around the end of June and continues to gain momentum. If a week ago (July 17) 864 people were infected by the population of 10 million, then according to the local regulator yesterday they were already 1434. This news shocked the world media and according to observers will deal a severe blow to vaccinations in many countries. In the United States in particular, the refusal of the second injection began, despite repressive measures.
The picture was as follows: from May 2 to June 5, the Pfizer vaccine showed an effectiveness of 94.3%, and from June 20 to July 17 – 64%, and according to the latest report of the Israeli Ministry of Health – only 39%. This means that among vaccinated people, the risk of infection is 39% lower than in unvaccinated people.
The local media, citing their authorities, are trying to explain this phenomenon. A number of experts from local virologists and celebrities interpreted the situation as follows: Pfizer Pharma, to promote its vaccine, took healthy people with excellent immunity such as guinea pigs. Even without the injections, they would most likely tolerate the so-called “crown” of Wuhan or the alpha variant.
On the other hand, it cannot be said that the Pfizer vaccine was complete nonsense, because after the achievement of collective immunity, the infection in the Jewish state virtually disappeared.
However, it is wrong to underestimate the strict quarantine measures, as well as the mandatory wearing of masks with a social distance. Few people know that in Israel they love and know how to fine, and many employees are given this right. At the migration forums you can read: “You stand like a pedestrian in front of a traffic light next to some ugly aunt. You take off your mask and it screams at you in Hebrew – “you are fined”.
In mid-spring, Israel loudly celebrated its victory over the “crown”, which was officially announced on April 15, 2021 by Prime Minister (now former) Benjamin Netanyahu during the Independence Day celebrations. At the same time, praise for Pfizer’s company was spared during the ceremony.
“Pfizer CEO Albert Burla, a Greek Jew, gave a short speech via video link to his parents who survived the Holocaust. He proudly noted the fact that the Jewish people around the world, and in Israel in particular, are doing well in science and innovation. “Together with Israel and Pfizer, we have demonstrated that with mass vaccination, we can defeat the COVID-19 pandemic and save many lives,” he was quoted as saying proudly in Israel Today.
Now the masks are being reintroduced in Tel Aviv. It turns out that people who received Pfizer in January differed in age from those who received the vaccines in April. The first stream was over 60 years old and now they get sick more often than those who were injected in the spring. On the other hand, young people become infected, especially nurses and paramedics who were also vaccinated 6 months ago.
Local coronavirus authorities are wondering what would happen if the American miracle vaccine turned out to be a sniper? Dr Ran Balizer, chairman of the national expert advisory group on Covid-19 in Israel, said the challenges of accurately assessing the effectiveness of vaccines were “enormous”. Or, speaking in everyday language, he admitted that “we know we know nothing.”
In general, the new assessments of Pfizer’s performance and beyond are of great concern both in Israel and elsewhere, including in the United States. First of all, health experts are concerned about the coming autumn season, when the delta option is expected to hit hardest in countries with low vaccination rates. Yes, the risk of infection is still high, but those who have received the injection do not get so sick and almost never end up in intensive care with a subsequent ticket to the afterlife.
“We need to remember that over time, the effectiveness of these vaccines may decrease,” said Dr. Isaac Bohoh, a professor of infectious diseases at the University of Toronto who is considered an “big head” overseas. His view, like that of many other virologists, is that “this virus is clearly different from the viruses that humanity has encountered before SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of Covid-19 disease, and has the exceptional ability to to transmit information from person to person – or in short, it is a “smart and self-learning” virus.
The delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 appears to have a well-developed instinct for self-preservation, and unvaccinated and fragile people provide rich and fertile soil for the virus to continue to multiply and create variants that are increasingly resistant to vaccines and medicines.
The report from Israel, which started vaccinating its population much earlier than many other countries, is likely to reinforce the arguments of drug manufacturers that a booster injection of people will eventually have to be given to protect themselves from the new options. . And in the United States in early July, Pfizer announced that it was beginning to see a weakening of acquired immunity from its double vaccine and now plans to get approval from the Food and Drug Administration to develop a booster dose.
But overseas officials don’t even want to hear about it, and fully vaccinated citizens don’t need additional vaccinations right now. The thing is that in the US, Pfizer has faced the strongest criticism. Given the prevailing hysteria there, when thousands of Americans shoot at each other with their personal weapons every day, this could even lead to civil war. The fact is that in the United States are already vaccinated “for fear of dismissal”, as written in overseas forums:
“Our beautiful cleaner, 25 years old, has just received her second dose. She works with children, so she was told it was mandatory. She was worried that she would have to sign a waiver if she had any side effects. During her career, she didn’t remember having to do something like that. “
The scandalous article about the risk of heart problems after receiving the vaccine also added fuel to the fire. It was written by Claire Craig, a diagnostic pathologist in London, and Andrew Bostham, MD, a research doctor at the Center for Primary Care and Prevention at Brown University. The publication states: “The incidence of myocarditis / pericarditis in the VAERS reporting system) per million doses administered to boys aged 12 to 17 years was 17 times higher than that of men over 50 years of age after 7 years of age. days after the first dose and increased to 74 times 7 days after the second dose “.
What is this? Attempting to make an elephant fly or a cry of despair is impossible to understand. It is logical that the number of Americans giving up Pfizer is growing, and the news from Israel is certainly strengthening the position of anti-vaxers.
It is possible that strong interest in Sputnik V will re-emerge in the world. According to Reuters, Argentina was one of the first countries to widely use the Russian vaccine against COVID-19, and increased pressure on Moscow due to delays in supplies. Threats to Buenos Aires to move to Pfizer, which were reported by a number of media outlets with ill-concealed malice, did not sway Health Minister Carla Vicotti, who acknowledged that it is common practice to threaten suppliers.
According to her, the “pressure” has helped and about 500 liters of the second component of the Sputnik V vaccine will arrive in the coming weeks, which will allow the local company Laboratorios Richmond to produce an additional 880,000 second doses. Then more will arrive, she added.
In any case, the situation with the delta wave seems dramatic against the background of the decline in the effectiveness of the main Western vaccine, and it seems that this could lead to a new global lockdown in the autumn and as a consequence to a more severe crisis in Russia due to a possible catastrophic drop in prices. of oil.
(Translation for “Trud” – Pavel Pavlov)
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