in Israel, the fourth dose of vaccine gives rise to the first reservations

For the first time, from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Israel is in doubt about a dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. For two days, Israelis over 60 have been rushing to receive their fourth dose of the vaccine. Professor Jacob Lavie, from the heart transplant department at Sheba Hospital in Tel Aviv, Israel, was the first in the country to accept it. Ten days later, he’s fine. “We know that four or five months after the third dose, the level of antibodies drops below the necessary threshold, and people are no longer protected.“, he argues.

Others are reluctant. “JI think that’s too much. And then after what, there will be others, and still others? “, worries a man, while a passer-by advances that he does not want “not be a guinea pig“. Cyril Cohen, director of the immunotherapy laboratory and member of the Covid committee at the Ministry of Health, does not deem the fourth dose necessary for all. “If today we do not have enough hindsight and proof that there is a need for this vaccine, (…) I believe that we should wait a bit“, he believes. The fourth dose nevertheless remains an important issue in Israel, where the situation is “out of control“, reports Agnès Vahramian, journalist for France Télévisions Moyen-Orient.