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Israeli vaccine advisor: "We have made mistakes"

Jan 18, 202231 min
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In a wide-ranging and forthright interview with Freddie Sayers, Professor Cyrille Cohen, head of Immunology at Bar Ilan University and a member of the advisory committee for vaccines for the Israeli Government said:


- The Green Pass / vaccine passport concept was no longer relevant in the Omicron era and should be phased out (he expected it to be in short order in Israel)

- He and his colleagues were surprised and disappointed that the vaccines did not prevent transmission, as they had originally hoped

- The biggest mistake of the pandemic in Israel was closing schools and education – he apologised for that

- Widespread infection is now an inevitable part of future immunity — otherwise known as herd immunity

- Omicron has accelerated the pandemic into the endemic phase, in which Covid will be “like flu”


For more read The Post from UnHerd.

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