Israel has opened a Covid vaccination center in a bar and is offering a free drink to anyone who gets a chance to encourage young people to be vaccinated.
The Jenia gastropub in Tel Aviv, which was closed for a long time during the pandemic, opened its doors on Thursday to give players a different kind of shot.
More than 43 percent of Israel’s 9 million residents have already received at least one dose of Pfizer vaccine, say health ministers, mostly among the elderly.
But there are fears that younger people, who are much less at risk for Covid, will be less eager to get stabbed, which will lead to new ideas to lure them in.
A bar in Tel Aviv now offers a completely different shot to players after it was turned into a temporary vaccination center
Young people vaccinated at the bar receive free liquor vouchers that can be redeemed at the bar
“I thought it was a very good opportunity to get the vaccine because I did not have the time or the ability to go to other places,” said May Perez, among dozens of people who showed up for their first shots. has. .
Israel is praised for running a world-beating vaccination program that results in it vaccinating a larger portion of its population than any other country.
However, the number of people taking the vaccine has dropped dramatically in recent weeks as implementation extends beyond the elderly and vulnerable and into lower-risk groups.
Meanwhile, doctors reported that an increase in younger people ended up in hospital – the vast majority of whom have not yet been vaccinated.
While this is encouraging because it means the vaccine works, health officials say the challenge now is to convince more people to get it.
Professor Eyal Leshem, an infectious disease expert at Israel’s largest hospital, Sheba, told Sky News: ‘You really have to convince them.
‘You need to prepare your communication, work on social media, work with community leaders, opinion leaders, even celebrities, and just make sure people understand that it’s safe and that it’s really important that everyone is vaccinated so we can return to normal life. ‘
Meanwhile, promising studies from Professor Leshem’s hospital have suggested that a fixed dose of Pfizer vaccine is 85 percent effective against coronavirus infection between two and four weeks after vaccination.
Israel has implemented the fastest vaccination program in the world, but it has started to decline as the jab is offered to younger people, who are less at risk from Covid
Doctors in Israel say increasing numbers of young people end up in hospital because the vaccine protects older people from serious diseases
Studies conducted in Israel suggest that Pfizer’s sting, which the country uses to roll it out (pictured), can be up to 94 percent effective in preventing the disease.
The survey was done on health workers in the hospital.
The Lancet report focused on more than 9,000 medical staff at Sheba Hospital near Tel Aviv. About 7,000 of them received the first dose, and the rest were not vaccinated.
Of the group, 170 were diagnosed with Covid-19 after tests were performed only on those who showed symptoms or who were in contact with coronavirus carriers.
Fifty-two percent of it was found not to be vaccinated.
Compared to the two groups, the Sheba study calculated that the vaccine was 47 percent effective between one and 14 days after vaccination, and increased to 85 percent after 15 to 28 days.
“What we are seeing is a very high efficiency, already after two weeks, between two weeks and four weeks after vaccination, and already a high efficiency of 85 percent reduction of symptomatic infection,” said Gili Regev-Yochay, co-author of the study, to small group of journalists.
He said that despite the fact that the vaccine is ‘incredibly effective’, scientists are still investigating whether people who have been fully vaccinated can transmit the virus to others.
“That’s the big, big question. We’re working on it. It does not appear on this paper and I hope we will have good news soon, ” Regev-Yochay said.
Israel delivered a shot of the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine to 4.23 million residents, or 47 percent of its nine million population, of which 2.85 million received the recommended full course of two shots, the latest figures from the Ministry of Health.