Although COVID-associated deaths and newly diagnosed cases are finally dropping, mortality rates for the beginning of 2022 show a disastrous picture, with almost as many people dying in January of 2022 as died in January of 2021, despite the fact that the vast majority of Israel's citizens were vaccinated in the interim.
Excess mortality for the month of January in both 2021 and 2022 was far higher than in previous years, according to data obtained from the CBS.