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Overloaded Hospitals

Israel as a case study 

In September 2020, the Israeli government was considering (and later implemented) a second “full” lockdown over the upcoming holiday season. (The first such lockdown was arranged six months earlier over the Passover holiday.) A key factor in the decision to re-lockdown the country was the governmental claim that Israeli hospitals were totally overwhelmed and had well over 100% capacity for COVID patients.[1][2] The situation was allegedly so bad that the Health Ministry ordered hospitals to stop all non-urgent treatments and surgeries.[3] Shockingly, the hospitals themselves counter-claimed that they were far from being “at capacity”.[4] This prompted an undercover investigative report by Israeli Channel 12, which proved that the COVID wards were actually well under capacity.[5] In response, the Israeli government quickly expunged all COVID hospital data from their website[6] and the second “full” lockdown in Israel proceeded. Weeks later it was revealed that about a third of hospitalized COVID “patients” in fact recovered from COVID and were in the hospital for unrelated issues.[7]

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Footnotes
[1]: https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-lockdown-will-last-at-least-a-month-possibly-much-longer/
[2]: “Health Ministry claims COVID wards countrywide overcrowded”

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/287670

[3]: “The Health Ministry has ordered hospitals to discontinue all elective (non-urgent) treatments and surgeries, claiming the system is flooded with coronavirus patients”

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/287670

[4]: “Ministry’s statistics had massively inflated the number of patients at a number of hospitals”

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/287710

[5]: “In some wards, occupancy rates are only 50%, contrary to ministry report”

https://www.mako.co.il/news-lifestyle/2020_q3/Article-b99f8baa3b1b471027.htm?sCh=31750a2610f26110&pId=173113802

[6]: “Israel’s Health Ministry has scrubbed its coronavirus information page of all data regarding the status of coronavirus hospital wards across the country.”

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/287710

[7]: “[A given patient] is defined and included in the number of hospitalized COVID patients, even though the coronavirus is not related to the reason for hospitalization” 

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/291736


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