Posted on 12/31/21
| News Source: i24
'There is almost no way you meet someone who is sick with omicron and you don't get infected'
The surging rate of Covid infections propelled by the latest omicron variant will lead Israel’s healthcare system to “collapse,” the head of the Israeli army’s (IDF) Covid task force warned Thursday.
"We will reach tens of thousands of infected people a day,” Brig. Gen. Reli Margalit said.
“People will not be able to be hospitalized,” he told Ynetnews.
The general leads the military unit tasked with combatting Covid infections through contact tracing and epidemiological investigations.
“In another week, people will run to get vaccinated. I hope it will not be too late."
Margalit explained that omicron had fewer “bad sides” because it attacks only the upper respiratory tract without binding to lung cells, causing less severe disease.
However, the strain is still highly contagious, even among the vaccinated.