Professor Hagai Levin, the chairman of the Association of Public Health Physicians, criticized a report by the Intelligence Department's Information and Knowledge Center warning that if Israel does not manage to control the spread of the coronavirus, the country would have approximately 1,000 new cases each day, and hundreds of deaths.
"I hope that there are no methodical errors. The report was not signed by anyone. If you look at the data itself, the report is updated on the mortality data as of a month ago. I don't understand how a report can be issued without current data and the data is simply incorrect. There is no systematic epidemiological basis for this claim," he said.
"I urge the Health Ministry Director-General to subject this to a professional review at the National Center for Disease Control so that epidemiological professionals go through it.
"It must have focus, identify focal points, and treat them in order to reinforce the epidemiological investigations made in the field by the health offices. Epidemiological professionals must go over them, The teams are doing great work, but they're in a rush.
"We are strengthening the health care personnel, the minister and the director-general, and making sure that the policy is professional, and is based on evidence rather than fears," he concluded.