The Public Emergency Council for the Covid19 Crisis, comprised of senior Israeli doctors and researchers who protest the way COVID-19 is being addressed in the country, on Wednesday lamented the establishment of conditions for opening the education system.
In a post on its Facebook page, the council quoted MIT Operations Management prof. and council member Retsef Levi, who pointed to current COVID data on young people in arguing that restrictions in the education system were unjustified.
"Follow the data from the updated dashboard from this morning: In the last month there have been 58,628 verified cases aged 0-19, 19 seriously ill patients, 0 deceased.
"That is, even if we assume the most stringent assumptions, the chance of a serious illness is 0.03 percent… and that is if we assume that all these patients really got sick from corona and not with corona, we ignore the fact that there are probably many more children who were exposed, and that many seriously ill have underlying conditions...and the Health Ministry still sets conditions for the opening of the education system. Maybe enough already?!" he was quoted as saying.