This post isn’t about the Israeli Government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic. It’s not about lockdowns and curfews. It’s just summing up where we are now. One Israeli in 400 was diagnosed with Covid-19 last week 22,870 new Covid-19 cases were diagnosed between Saturday the 5th and Friday the 11th of September. That works out […]
Author: arieh
Big rise in Covid among teenage boys. Why?
Israel is now seeing about 3,500 new Covid-19 cases a day. This is partly due to increased testing (45,000 tests yesterday, a genuinely impressive number) but test positivity is still very high, so it’s pretty clear that the increase also represents a real rise in actual infections too. There are more cases in every age […]
Israel’s corona-groundhog-day
After a while the stories all become so similar that they blur together. Covid-19 infection rates rise. The Health Ministry (or coronavirus czar, or NSC head, or even the prime minister) plan measures to stop the spread of the disease. The measures are announced or briefed to the public. It becomes clear that these measures […]
Sometimes I hate being right
As I sounded the alarm over Israel’s sharp increase in daily coronavirus cases last week, I made a rather gloomy prediction: I don’t see how Haredi yeshivot can possibly be able to function safely while virus cases are high without making things much worse. But I also see little political possibility that the government, relying […]
Crisis as daily cases pass 3k
Yesterday, 3075 coronavirus cases were identified in Israel, a record number. The previous record, the day before, was 2250 daily cases. That works out to 32.6 new coronavirus cases per 100k residents yesterday, which is the highest in the world (excluding microstates). Bnei Brak alone reported over 250 cases yesterday. If Bnei Brak was a […]