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Since the mass vaccination drive kicked off last December, Israel has inoculated more than 5.3 million out of its 9 million citizens [~ 58%]. Although the country hasn't reached herd immunity yet, the number of people who have been vaccinated was enough to let the country function and keep its public offices and private businesses open.

asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 δ carriers, formerly known as "silent spreaders"

The Delta variant is believed to be more resilient to the vaccine but recent research shows that it still prevented symptoms in 88 percent of cases. It also helped to keep patients from hospitalisation in 96 percent of cases.
Yet, oddly enough, the Israeli government is not in a rush to bring those jabs to Israel. At the beginning of the month, Bennett vowed that the country will have enough vaccines for all of its citizens but during a weekly meeting with his ministers he said only 200,000 of them will be brought on 1 August.

most ignorant, litigious nation on planet REPORTS: "community transmission"--formerly known as (FKA) "positivity productivity" FKA "super spreading" FKA "droplets" FKA "communicable disease"--has entered the room. The CDC is recommending masks for vaccinated people in high transmission areas. What does that mean?

What is high transmissibility?
Community transmission is calculated using two metrics: how many new cases per 100,000 persons have occurred in the last seven days, and the percentage of positive diagnostic and screening nucleic acid amplification tests in the last seven days. Counties are categorized as having low, moderate, substantial, or high transmissibility.
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Just under half of all U.S. counties, 46.43%, are currently identified as having high COVID transmission, according to the CDC, an increase of over 17% from seven days ago.

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