Researchers predict decline in COVID cases as 19 people die in one day

• Author: MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
• Published date: 24 September 2021
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

There were 7,592 people dead reported Thursday morning and 7,611 on Friday morning. In total, 529 people have died since the start of September.

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

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They also predicted that the number of serious cases would decline, but that it would take another week or two before that happens. Since serious cases tend to be younger people and unvaccinated, they are hospitalized for longer periods of time and are 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 703 people in serious condition Friday, among them, 203 were ventilated.

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 who was connected to an ECMO machine.

In general, 6,314 new cases were diagnosed on Thursday, the Health Ministry announced Friday. The positivity rate on Friday was 5.14%, out of 124,783 tests...