Prof. Zeev Rothstein, CEO of Hadassah Hospital, spoke today (Friday) with Nissim Mashaal on his program on 103FM and spoke with him about the government’s decision to extend the closure until Sunday at 7:00. Rothstein claims “Israel is good at imposing closures, but we are bad In addition, Rothstein explained that in his opinion, the conduct of the government during the Corona crisis is not typical of Israel: “We are a young country that is taking bold steps and developing things that no one can, we have become a zombie country.”
We go out to a locksmith shop and the morbidity only gets worse. what I do not understand?
“The closure did not achieve what it was supposed to achieve, the morbidity is not small, the morbidity rate is even slightly higher and one must look for a new strategy for closure. Is it because it was not really a closure, because of other reasons? Because of various circumstances involved? That is being heard about more and more. ”
Netanyahu at the beginning of the cabinet meeting on extending the closure and the British mutation
The education system will develop gradually and so will the malls, the morbidity will skyrocket. What did we do?
“You start from the point of view that actually opening malls or stores will re-increase morbidity as happened in the second and first closure, but this closure was different because the morbidity increased during closure, in that we put people in homes, with the new variation of the virus, the same British mutation, infection rate “The big one caused inside the houses what caused the previous opening of the malls and commerce. I’m not sure that the point of view seen with an orderly opening that the public will respect the insulation procedures, masks, etc. will really create a significant increase or increase in morbidity.”
Yesterday in the government the experts expressed concern that the opening of the closure could lead to a wider outbreak that would accelerate the British variant.
“I know the opinions of the experts, that even there we can find those who see so and so because it is difficult to predict the future, it is easier to see what happened in the past. Some of those experts continue to argue, rightly, that as there are gatherings with the contagious variant we see more and more outbreaks but it It’s up to us too. How we learned the lessons from the quarantine, how we will act in the coming week, what will happen if we really adhere to discipline and do not make gatherings like we saw on TV in all sectors, causing distrust in our government. They will take care of themselves properly. “
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Does the lack of trust cause an outburst?
“In my opinion, yes, the traffic jams that have been in the last week, I go to Jerusalem every day and see the traffic jams, it does not indicate that the public is sitting in a closed house. Why do people leave the houses? Why do they feel free? Because it is a degree of distrust, indiscipline, reluctance To get under the stretcher, in the end I do not know if this closure really fulfilled its function. “
People locked in on the promenade in Tel Aviv (Photo: Avshalom Shashoni)Why are we going? Stuck with the corona?
“I know I’m disappointing a lot in saying that the corona is here to stay and it’s struggling, mutating and anything and everything and the worst that could happen and I hope not, that a mutation that the antibodies created by the vaccine will not eliminate. We have an important mission in the beginning. “It’s the mass vaccine. Yesterday we boosted the vaccine for young people aged 16 and over and I hope people understand that it’s their and their families’ health and go get vaccinated. It’s not such a big disaster, on the contrary, they will stop with all the Pike News.
Did you propose to the Ministry of Health to vaccinate the yeshiva students?
“True, the answer I received – ‘Let them go to the HMOs’. I suggested that we hold a vaccination campaign in the yeshivot, the ultra-Orthodox community trusts the Hadassah team, we know we are for them all the time and therefore agreed with the rabbis and yeshiva leaders and community leaders. This one, of yeshiva students who are very difficult to disconnect from each other and do not have to disconnect from the world of Torah, can be done safely under vaccination and unfortunately someone gave an answer and I’m not sure they thought about it until the end they turn to HMOs. “Reliability, we told everyone and the director general of the Ministry of Health said that everyone who was vaccinated in the first dose will be vaccinated within 21 days and we sent 20 people home yesterday.”
“Zombie State”, what does it mean?
“We do not know the policy, it is not clear where we are going. We are very good at imposing a closure but we are bad at making plans to leave the closure, talking about a student shield that we started talking about before the start of the school year in September. We do things uncharacteristically for Israel. Bold, develops things that no one develops, a zombie state. “