Are Israeli hospitals really overloaded with unvaccinated COVID-19 patients? According to Professor Yaakov Jerris, director of Ichilov Hospital’s coronavirus ward, the situation is completely opposite.
“Right now, most of our severe cases are vaccinated,” Jerris told Channel 13 News. “They had at least three injections. Between seventy and eighty percent of the serious cases are vaccinated. So, the vaccine has no significance regarding severe illness, which is why just twenty to twenty-five percent of our patients are unvaccinated.”
Prof. Giris, director of Covid division at largest hospital in Israel 🇮🇱:
— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) February 3, 2022
"80% of severe Covid cases are at least triple-vaccinated."
(Note that "fully vaccinated" in Israel means triple or quadruple vaccinated)https://t.co/NF47ZoINoC pic.twitter.com/cj0TYOwQT0
Jerris also revealed some of problems in reported cases.

Speaking at a cabinet meeting, he told ministers, “Defining a serious patient is problematic. For example, a patient with a chronic lung disease always had a low level of oxygen, but now he has a positive coronavirus test result which technically makes him a ‘serious coronavirus patient,’ but that’s not accurate. The patient is only in a difficult condition because he has a serious underlying illness.”