The strategy of “mass contagion” is the one that Sweden followed in the initial stage of the pandemic, when it decided not to impose severe restrictions on people who did not belong to risk groups.
The Israeli health authorities are considering changing their response strategy to the pandemic, in the midst of the omicron’s spread, to promote a “mass contagion model” of that variant that causes a mild illness, instead of imposing more restrictions.
With the infection rate continuously increasing, with almost 3,000 new positives, experts from the Ministry of Health are considering a policy change to achieve herd immunity through mass infections with the omicron variant, according to Hebrew media.
The positivity rate in the country has risen to 2.48% and the R0 has soared to 1.53, indicating that the outbreak is intensifying.
However, the increase in infections does not imply an increase in severe cases due to covid-19 or hospitalizations.
According to Health estimates, in two weeks 90% of the new cases of covid-19 will correspond to the omicron variant, much more infectious than the delta, although it causes milder symptoms.
The strategy of “mass contagion” is the one that Sweden followed in the initial stage of the pandemic, when it decided not to impose severe restrictions on people who did not belong to risk groups, in an attempt to continue with normal life and achieve herd immunity .
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