Professor cyril cowen is one of the foremost authorities in israel on vacinations. He's also on the advisory committee for clinical trials, or code of accins,. So he has aa direct line into the powers that be over there. Professor Cowen: "We are in a different phase of the pendemic" 'I think that every step that was taken in isIsrael was a very important step,' says professorcowen.
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”
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