Cisco Israel held an event yesterday (Wednesday) for its business customers in Israel, which took place through its collaborative work platform – webex, which also hosted the former director general of the Ministry of Health, Professor Gabi Barbash.
At the conference, Oren Sagi, CEO of Cisco Israel, revealed that the company is working on a new development in the webex system that will automatically detect if there are more people in the room than it is limited to and alert you immediately. “We have established emergency centers together with government ministries and large bodies in Israel. “There we have been carrying out very wide-ranging projects for years,” said Sagi.
He added that “Cisco has reached the corona plague with technology and services that can provide a solution to the most burning needs of the plague: platforms for optimal remote work, combined with collaboration and cyber security.”
“The vaccine is not everything”
Professor Gabi Barbash, who was a guest at the event, said in a conversation with the CEO of Cisco that “humanity is running a race between vaccines and mutations. “Although we have vaccines, the virus continues to produce tens of thousands of mutations – some of which are irrelevant and neutral, even harmful to the virus, but some of which are problematic.”
“The vaccine is not everything, it is not enough to be vaccinated – you also have to look at the disease and see a decrease,” added Prof Barbash. “The more morbidity there is the more mutations there are. According to him, humanity will need to establish epidemiological and genetic control systems in order to monitor the development of the virus and identify the new mutations consistently.
In addition, Barbash stressed the importance of border control at Ben Gurion Airport, saying that “if we do not defend the country and filter those who come to Israel – variants will come from abroad and we will not be able to control it. The farce that happens today at Ben Gurion Airport only proves us We are far away. “
“I estimate that we will not take off the masks before the end of 2021 and I think we will stay with them long after that,” Barbash added. “The virus is becoming an endemic virus, its prevalence and violence may have gone down and maybe it will be like the flu virus in the future, but it will not go away. The world is currently working on a drug against the virus, it’s very complex, it’s far away, but we’re working on it.” .
Asked by one of the conference participants about the issue of fertility that excites many in Israel, Prof. Barbash replied: “There is not even the slightest connection between the vaccine and fertility. It is completely ruled out. What we do see is that men with corona can be affected by fertility for several months.”