Covid-19 Update -- August 20, 2021

Israel: out of control? All that talk about being first out of the gate to get its citizens vaccinated? Wasn't Israel the poster-child for getting its citizens vaccinated?

• Israel: grim warning;
• Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine is 39% effective as delta spreads; turns viral disease into a "cold":
• this is why the US is now recommending a booster shot eight months out;
• fifth wave (if you count the smallish first wave, double-humped 2nd/3rd wave)); and worse, deaths also increasing;
  

Japan

• cases surging; this fourth wave is 3 - 4 times greater than previous 2nd and 3rd wave;
• as a reminder:
• the most recent Japanese began before the Olympics official starting date, but there would have been a lot of international traffic in/out preparing for the Olympics;
• Tokyo Olympics, last wee of July, first week of August, 2021

Pretty much corroborates everything "we" knew from the beginning.