535 deaths from corona in Israel in September

• Author: MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
• Published date: 25 September 2021
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

There were 7,641 people reported to have died from the virus as of Saturday night and 7,611 as of Friday morning. In total, 535 people have died since the start of September – twice as many as had died in the four months from April through July when only 266 people died of the virus.

Some 627 people died in August. Last September, 651 people died. The month with the highest number of deaths was January 2021, when 1,444 Israelis succumbed to COVID-19.

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Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who have been advising the government since the start of the pandemic, shared a report on Friday that they presented to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, in which they predicted a continued decline in the infection rate.

They also predicted that the number of serious cases would decline, but that it would take another week or two before this decline was felt in the country's hospitals. They said that since serious cases tend to be younger people and the unvaccinated, they are hospitalized for longer periods of time and are therefore crowding the country's intensive care units.

"The virus is progressing through the unvaccinated population or those whose vaccination has expired," the researchers wrote.

There were 694 people in serious condition Saturday night, among them 221 who were ventilated – the highest number since March.

On Friday, there were 41 COVID-19 patients connected to heart-lung ECMO machines, the majority of whom were unvaccinated, according to the Health Ministry. There was not a single person who was vaccinated with a third coronavirus shot connected to an ECMO machine.

Two of these young people were unvaccinated young expecting women, ages 20 and 27, who are hospitalized at Hadassah-University Medical Center in Ein Kerem, in serious and critical condition.

Due to the serious nature of their conditions, they were forced to deliver their babies early, at weeks 28 and 27 respectively.

The 20-year-old is intubated in critical condition and the 27-year-old is in serious condition and receiving respiratory assistance. Both babies, born so long before their due dates, are being treated in the hospital's preterm neonatal intensive care unit.

"The next few weeks will be critical," a spokesperson for the hospital told The Jerusalem Post.

Also at Hadassah, two young children ages six months and two years were in...