http://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/ex-health-official-suggests-ending-quarantine-allowing-israelis-to-catch-covid/
Ex-health official suggests ending quarantine, allowing Israelis to
catch COVID
26 December 2021, 6:12 pm
Health Ministry Deputy Director General Itamar Grotto at a press
conference about the coronavirus, May 29, 2020. (Screen capture: Facebook)
Health Ministry Deputy Director General Itamar Grotto at a press
conference about the coronavirus, May 29, 2020. (Screen capture: Facebook)
Itamar Grotto, the former deputy director of the Health Ministry,
suggests that it could be to Israelis’ benefit to be infected by the
Omicron variant of COVID-19.
“It could be that we should think about such a policy… of letting people
get infected,” Grotto tells the Kan public broadcaster.
The ex-health official suggests that in the face of the ultra-contagious
Omicron variant, the policy of quarantine, even for those who are not
vaccinated, is no longer effective.
He says early data from abroad shows that while many Israelis will
become infected, rates of hospitalizations will not shoot up “like they
did in the last wave, we won’t see that again.”
“It has to become more of an individual problem than a public problem,”
says Grotto, lamenting constant quarantining of school-age students when
a classmate tests positive.
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