Approaching Herd Immunity: Lessons From Israel's COVID-19 Vaccine Campaign

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hi welcome to the jewish orthodox women's medical association podcast i'm your host elisa minkin i'm a pediatrician and i'm joined today by another pediatrician that i'm super excited to have all the way from israel dr dina zimmerman hi can you hear me hi hi thank you so much for joining me give a little bit of of your background information dr zimmerman md mph ibclc and for people who don't know what those mean of course medical degree you have a master's of public health master's of public health um which is awesome especially in the context of what we're going to talk about today and you're also a lactation consultant which is super cool you right now work as director of maternal and child maternal child and adolescent department of the public health services in israel's ministry of health so i asked you today and i thank you so much for working this out with me including the seven hour time difference to talk about what we can learn from israel because israel is the world leader in covid vaccines at this moment in time am covid vaccines at this moment in time am i correct per population i think that is correct right well we're not talking about numbers in other words the population i think that is correct right because we're not talking about numbers yes america has vaccinated put more vaccines and numbers of arms but in terms of percent population and i don't i have the data in front of me i just want to give people some some background and then i'll give you a chance to give us some answer some questions um in terms of percent fully vaccinated i think the united

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1. 0:02hi welcome to the jewish orthodox women's medical association podcast i'm your host elisa minkin i'm…
2. 4:11and these numbers are still staying low that's the first sign that it has to be…
3. 8:15are not okay and there definitely are you know one out of 20 people who are…
4. 12:52you have a lot of people that you are potentially exposing so you know it's also…
5. 16:57why should i get this vaccine i'm young on low risk because it is not a…
6. 21:39against you know corona so pretty much we're giving it to all pregnant all lactating women…
7. 25:41by than we would have for other vaccines because kovid is killing people every single day…
8. 29:47inflammatory you know which we've seen some of so it's not the most common thing they're…
9. 34:21spread that as we're trying to stay ahead the the vaccine companies are trying to stay…
10. 38:29authorization so nothing's happening that fast um and i actually am hoping to talk to a…

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