IBOV 175,334.46 ▲ 0.74% IPSA 10,964.11 ▲ 0.12% IPC MEX 67,183.26 ▲ 1.20% MERVAL 3,305,316 — 0.00% COLCAP 2,282.91 ▲ 0.37% BVL PERÚ 57,237.60 — — USD/BRL5.12▲ 0.06% USD/MXN17.46▲ 0.06% USD/CLP936.17▼ 0.39% USD/COP3,184▼ 1.03% USD/PEN3.40▼ 0.03% USD/ARS 1,497 — 0.00% USD/UYU40.15▲ 1.29% USD/PYG6,020▲ 1.46% USD/BOB11.32▲ 3.54% USD/DOP58.00▲ 0.78% USD/CRC449.99▲ 1.60% USD/GTQ7.62▲ 2.19% USD/HNL26.75▲ 1.51% USD/NIO36.62▲ 0.69% USD/VES740.95▼ 0.05% USD/PAB1.00— 0.00% USD/BZD2.00— 0.00% USD/JMD157.49▲ 0.26% USD/TTD6.75▲ 1.35% EUR/BRL5.82▲ 0.60% BRENT 86.70 ▼ 1.88% WTI 81.28 ▼ 1.61% IRON ORE 161.91 — — COPPER 6.31 ▼ 0.44% GOLD 4,032 ▼ 1.04% SILVER 57.55 ▼ 1.58% SOY 1,209 ▲ 0.02% CORN 475.50 ▲ 5.26% WHEAT 655.00 ▼ 0.76% COFFEE 340.95 ▲ 5.05% SUGAR 14.56 ▼ 0.14% ORANGE JUICE 139.85 ▼ 1.13% COTTON 79.91 ▲ 0.72% COCOA 5,077 ▼ 0.45% BEEF 218.30 ▼ 3.86% CATTLE 331.28 ▼ 4.07% LITHIUM 68.63 ▲ 1.21% PETR4 41.01 ▼ 2.84% VALE3 75.69 ▲ 0.60% ITUB4 42.69 ▲ 1.40% BBDC4 18.71 ▲ 1.24% ABEV3 15.86 ▲ 1.41% BBAS3 20.50 ▲ 0.74% B3SA3 15.72 ▲ 1.81% WEGE3 46.40 ▲ 0.89% PRIO3 55.71 ▼ 5.29% SUZB3 41.87 ▲ 0.07% RENT3 37.72 ▲ 2.25% AZZA3 17.11 ▲ 2.76% CSAN3 3.95 ▲ 3.95% RAIZ4 0.26 — 0.00% PCAR3 2.74 ▼ 1.79% GMAT3 3.83 ▲ 1.06% PSSA3 54.29 ▼ 0.89% CVCB3 1.36 ▲ 1.49% POSI3 3.52 ▼ 0.85% SLCE3 13.38 ▼ 1.91% NATU3 8.49 ▲ 1.31% BRKM5 6.08 ▼ 0.33% RANI3 7.93 ▼ 0.25% CSNA3 5.71 ▲ 6.53% CMIN3 5.80 ▲ 1.93% USIM5 8.61 ▲ 1.53% GGBR4 24.48 ▲ 0.91% ENEV3 25.47 ▲ 2.29% CPFE3 44.75 ▼ 0.75% CMIG4 11.17 ▲ 1.73% EQTL3 38.80 ▲ 1.20% LREN3 13.73 ▲ 3.47% VIVT3 36.11 ▲ 2.26% RAIL3 13.80 ▲ 1.69% KLABIN 17.68 ▲ 0.91% RAIA DROGASIL 18.17 ▲ 1.06% RDOR3 33.60 ▲ 0.66% HAPV3 10.19 ▲ 2.72% FLRY3 16.53 ▲ 1.66% SMTO3 14.67 ▼ 2.52% UGPA3 32.09 ▼ 1.90% VBBR3 34.50 ▼ 1.71% BBSE3 40.54 ▼ 2.29% BPAC11 55.55 ▲ 1.61% CURY3 30.39 ▲ 3.54% AERI3 2.05 ▲ 0.49% VIVARA 22.01 ▲ 2.75% COMPASS 25.30 ▲ 2.18% VAMOS 3.17 ▲ 0.63% SANB11 27.36 ▲ 3.87% ASAI3 8.11 ▲ 3.31% SBSP3 28.87 ▲ 1.73% WALMEX 48.52 ▲ 0.92% GMEXICO 209.50 ▲ 1.07% FEMSA 230.17 ▲ 3.68% CEMEX 21.37 ▲ 1.09% GFNORTE 196.59 ▲ 2.25% BIMBO 59.24 ▲ 1.59% TELEVISA 9.93 ▲ 1.22% AMX 22.49 ▼ 1.40% GAP 377.40 ▲ 0.10% ASUR 268.57 ▲ 0.30% OMA 228.74 ▲ 1.15% KOF 189.00 ▲ 5.35% GRUMA 267.85 ▼ 0.01% KIMBER 39.92 ▲ 0.71% SQM-B 64,650 ▼ 1.07% COPEC 6,249 ▼ 1.28% BSANTANDER 80.77 ▲ 1.83% FALABELLA 6,155 ▲ 2.75% ENELAM 85.89 ▲ 0.47% CENCOSUD 1,915 ▼ 2.20% CMPC 1,040 ▲ 1.41% BANCO CHILE 193.26 ▲ 0.08% LATAM AIR 24.60 ▲ 3.02% YPF 81,225 ▼ 0.95% GGAL 7,960 ▲ 0.89% PAMPA 5,475 ▼ 0.73% TXAR 675.00 ▲ 0.15% ALUAR 984.50 ▲ 1.29% TGS 9,710 ▼ 0.56% CEPU 2,383 ▲ 0.76% MIRGOR 16,825 ▲ 1.82% COME 42.46 ▲ 0.12% LOMA NEGRA 3,700 ▲ 2.49% BYMA 302.75 ▲ 0.75% TELECOM ARG 4,490 ▲ 2.51% ECOPETROL 15.80 ▼ 1.31% BANCOLOMBIA 87.93 ▲ 2.23% GRUPO AVAL 4.82 ▲ 0.84% CREDICORP 390.99 ▲ 0.66% SOUTHERN COPPER 179.32 ▲ 0.02% BUENAVENTURA 31.72 ▲ 2.62% MERCADOLIBRE 1,820 ▲ 1.02% NUBANK 14.53 ▲ 3.12% XP 16.74 ▲ 0.30% PAGSEGURO 9.38 ▲ 1.96% STONE 10.89 ▲ 1.21% GLOBANT 32.64 ▲ 4.28% TECNOGLASS 45.44 ▲ 0.31% GAP AIRPORT 216.27 ▼ 0.00% ASUR 268.57 ▲ 0.30% OMA AIRPORT 104.80 ▲ 1.32% AMX ADR 25.70 ▼ 1.19% FEMSA ADR 132.15 ▲ 3.96% CEMEX ADR 12.21 ▲ 1.24% PETROBRAS ADR 18.00 ▼ 4.10% VALE ADR 14.78 ▼ 0.07% ITAU ADR 8.37 ▲ 1.09% SANTANDER BR 5.44 ▲ 2.64% AMBEV ADR 3.07 ▲ 0.33% CSN 1.12 ▲ 3.70% GERDAU 4.83 ▲ 0.42% LATAM ADR 52.27 ▲ 4.23% BTC 63,436 ▼ 0.45% ETH 1,889 ▼ 0.06% SOL 73.19 ▼ 1.28% XRP 1.05 ▼ 1.07% BNB 568.01 ▲ 0.40% ADA 0.16 ▲ 1.53% DOGE 0.07 ▼ 0.45% AVAX 6.44 ▲ 0.69% LINK 8.32 ▼ 0.47% DOT 0.76 ▲ 0.48% LTC 46.52 ▲ 1.13% BCH 213.51 ▲ 0.85% TRX 0.32 ▲ 0.03% XLM 0.17 ▼ 0.29% HBAR 0.07 ▼ 0.86% NEAR 1.66 ▼ 1.45% ATOM 1.31 ▲ 0.45% AAVE 98.15 ▲ 0.31% SELIC 14.25% EMBRAER 86.90 ▲ 5.33% EMBRAER ADR 67.99 ▲ 4.71% JBS 13.55 ▲ 10.34% JBS BDR 69.23 ▲ 11.59% MBRF3 15.89 ▲ 7.08% MBRFY 2.96 ▲ 0.68% INTER 5.56 ▲ 5.10% IBOV 175,334.46 ▲ 0.74% IPSA 10,964.11 ▲ 0.12% IPC MEX 67,183.26 ▲ 1.20% MERVAL 3,305,316 — 0.00% COLCAP 2,282.91 ▲ 0.37% BVL PERÚ 57,237.60 — — USD/BRL 5.12 ▲ 0.06% USD/MXN 17.46 ▲ 0.06% USD/CLP 936.17 ▼ 0.39% USD/COP 3,184 ▼ 1.03% USD/PEN 3.40 ▼ 0.03% USD/ARS 1,497 — 0.00% USD/UYU 40.15 ▲ 1.29% USD/PYG 6,020 ▲ 1.46% USD/BOB 11.32 ▲ 3.54% USD/DOP 58.00 ▲ 0.78% USD/CRC 449.99 ▲ 1.60% USD/GTQ 7.62 ▲ 2.19% USD/HNL 26.75 ▲ 1.51% USD/NIO 36.62 ▲ 0.69% USD/VES 740.95 ▼ 0.05% USD/PAB 1.00 — 0.00% USD/BZD 2.00 — 0.00% USD/JMD 157.49 ▲ 0.26% USD/TTD 6.75 ▲ 1.35% EUR/BRL 5.81 ▲ 0.51% BRENT 86.70 ▼ 1.88% WTI 81.28 ▼ 1.61% IRON ORE 161.91 — — COPPER 6.31 ▼ 0.44% GOLD 4,032 ▼ 1.04% SILVER 57.55 ▼ 1.58% SOY 1,209 ▲ 0.02% CORN 475.50 ▲ 5.26% WHEAT 655.00 ▼ 0.76% COFFEE 340.95 ▲ 5.05% SUGAR 14.56 ▼ 0.14% ORANGE JUICE 139.85 ▼ 1.13% COTTON 79.91 ▲ 0.72% COCOA 5,077 ▼ 0.45% BEEF 218.30 ▼ 3.86% CATTLE 331.28 ▼ 4.07% LITHIUM 68.63 ▲ 1.21% PETR4 41.01 ▼ 2.84% VALE3 75.69 ▲ 0.60% ITUB4 42.69 ▲ 1.40% BBDC4 18.71 ▲ 1.24% ABEV3 15.86 ▲ 1.41% BBAS3 20.50 ▲ 0.74% B3SA3 15.72 ▲ 1.81% WEGE3 46.40 ▲ 0.89% PRIO3 55.71 ▼ 5.29% SUZB3 41.87 ▲ 0.07% RENT3 37.72 ▲ 2.25% AZZA3 17.11 ▲ 2.76% CSAN3 3.95 ▲ 3.95% RAIZ4 0.26 — 0.00% PCAR3 2.74 ▼ 1.79% GMAT3 3.83 ▲ 1.06% PSSA3 54.29 ▼ 0.89% CVCB3 1.36 ▲ 1.49% POSI3 3.52 ▼ 0.85% SLCE3 13.38 ▼ 1.91% NATU3 8.49 ▲ 1.31% BRKM5 6.08 ▼ 0.33% RANI3 7.93 ▼ 0.25% CSNA3 5.71 ▲ 6.53% CMIN3 5.80 ▲ 1.93% USIM5 8.61 ▲ 1.53% GGBR4 24.48 ▲ 0.91% ENEV3 25.47 ▲ 2.29% CPFE3 44.75 ▼ 0.75% CMIG4 11.17 ▲ 1.73% EQTL3 38.80 ▲ 1.20% LREN3 13.73 ▲ 3.47% VIVT3 36.11 ▲ 2.26% RAIL3 13.80 ▲ 1.69% KLABIN 17.68 ▲ 0.91% RAIA DROGASIL 18.17 ▲ 1.06% RDOR3 33.60 ▲ 0.66% HAPV3 10.19 ▲ 2.72% FLRY3 16.53 ▲ 1.66% SMTO3 14.67 ▼ 2.52% UGPA3 32.09 ▼ 1.90% VBBR3 34.50 ▼ 1.71% BBSE3 40.54 ▼ 2.29% BPAC11 55.55 ▲ 1.61% CURY3 30.39 ▲ 3.54% AERI3 2.05 ▲ 0.49% VIVARA 22.01 ▲ 2.75% COMPASS 25.30 ▲ 2.18% VAMOS 3.17 ▲ 0.63% SANB11 27.36 ▲ 3.87% ASAI3 8.11 ▲ 3.31% SBSP3 28.87 ▲ 1.73% WALMEX 48.52 ▲ 0.92% GMEXICO 209.50 ▲ 1.07% FEMSA 230.17 ▲ 3.68% CEMEX 21.37 ▲ 1.09% GFNORTE 196.59 ▲ 2.25% BIMBO 59.24 ▲ 1.59% TELEVISA 9.93 ▲ 1.22% AMX 22.49 ▼ 1.40% GAP 377.40 ▲ 0.10% ASUR 268.57 ▲ 0.30% OMA 228.74 ▲ 1.15% KOF 189.00 ▲ 5.35% GRUMA 267.85 ▼ 0.01% KIMBER 39.92 ▲ 0.71% SQM-B 64,650 ▼ 1.07% COPEC 6,249 ▼ 1.28% BSANTANDER 80.77 ▲ 1.83% FALABELLA 6,155 ▲ 2.75% ENELAM 85.89 ▲ 0.47% CENCOSUD 1,915 ▼ 2.20% CMPC 1,040 ▲ 1.41% BANCO CHILE 193.26 ▲ 0.08% LATAM AIR 24.60 ▲ 3.02% YPF 81,225 ▼ 0.95% GGAL 7,960 ▲ 0.89% PAMPA 5,475 ▼ 0.73% TXAR 675.00 ▲ 0.15% ALUAR 984.50 ▲ 1.29% TGS 9,710 ▼ 0.56% CEPU 2,383 ▲ 0.76% MIRGOR 16,825 ▲ 1.82% COME 42.46 ▲ 0.12% LOMA NEGRA 3,700 ▲ 2.49% BYMA 302.75 ▲ 0.75% TELECOM ARG 4,490 ▲ 2.51% ECOPETROL 15.80 ▼ 1.31% BANCOLOMBIA 87.93 ▲ 2.23% GRUPO AVAL 4.82 ▲ 0.84% CREDICORP 390.99 ▲ 0.66% SOUTHERN COPPER 179.32 ▲ 0.02% BUENAVENTURA 31.72 ▲ 2.62% MERCADOLIBRE 1,820 ▲ 1.02% NUBANK 14.53 ▲ 3.12% XP 16.74 ▲ 0.30% PAGSEGURO 9.38 ▲ 1.96% STONE 10.89 ▲ 1.21% GLOBANT 32.64 ▲ 4.28% TECNOGLASS 45.44 ▲ 0.31% GAP AIRPORT 216.27 ▼ 0.00% ASUR 268.57 ▲ 0.30% OMA AIRPORT 104.80 ▲ 1.32% AMX ADR 25.70 ▼ 1.19% FEMSA ADR 132.15 ▲ 3.96% CEMEX ADR 12.21 ▲ 1.24% PETROBRAS ADR 18.00 ▼ 4.10% VALE ADR 14.78 ▼ 0.07% ITAU ADR 8.37 ▲ 1.09% SANTANDER BR 5.44 ▲ 2.64% AMBEV ADR 3.07 ▲ 0.33% CSN 1.12 ▲ 3.70% GERDAU 4.83 ▲ 0.42% LATAM ADR 52.27 ▲ 4.23% BTC 63,436 ▼ 0.45% ETH 1,889 ▼ 0.06% SOL 73.19 ▼ 1.28% XRP 1.05 ▼ 1.07% BNB 568.01 ▲ 0.40% ADA 0.16 ▲ 1.53% DOGE 0.07 ▼ 0.45% AVAX 6.44 ▲ 0.69% LINK 8.32 ▼ 0.47% DOT 0.76 ▲ 0.48% LTC 46.52 ▲ 1.13% BCH 213.51 ▲ 0.85% TRX 0.32 ▲ 0.03% XLM 0.17 ▼ 0.29% HBAR 0.07 ▼ 0.86% NEAR 1.66 ▼ 1.45% ATOM 1.31 ▲ 0.45% AAVE 98.15 ▲ 0.31% SELIC 14.25% EMBRAER 86.90 ▲ 5.33% EMBRAER ADR 67.99 ▲ 4.71% JBS 13.55 ▲ 10.34% JBS BDR 69.23 ▲ 11.59% MBRF3 15.89 ▲ 7.08% MBRFY 2.96 ▲ 0.68% INTER 5.56 ▲ 5.10%
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Covid-19 policy: Leading Israeli immunologist writes open letter: “It is time to admit failure”

By · January 11, 2022 · 4 min read

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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Professor Ehud Qimron, head of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Tel Aviv University and one of the leading Israeli immunologists, has written an open letter sharply criticizing the Israeli – and indeed global – management of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Original letter in Hebrew: N12 News (January 6, 2022); translated by Google / SPR. See also: Professor Qimron’s prediction from August 2020: “History will judge the hysteria” (INN).

Professor Ehud Qimron and two members of his team. (Photo internet reproduction)
Professor Ehud Qimron and two members of his team. (Photo internet reproduction)
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Ministry of Health, it’s time to admit failure

In the end, the truth will always be revealed, and the truth about the coronavirus policy is beginning to be revealed. When the destructive concepts collapse one by one, there is nothing left but to tell the experts who led the management of the pandemic – we told you so.

Two years late, you finally realize that a respiratory virus cannot be defeated and that any such attempt is doomed to fail. You do not admit it because you have admitted almost no mistake in the last two years. Still, in retrospect, it is clear that you have failed miserably in almost all of your actions, and even the media is already having a hard time covering your shame.

Despite years of observations and scientific knowledge, you refused to admit that the infection comes in waves that fade by themselves. You insisted on attributing every decline of a wave solely to your actions, and so through false propaganda, “you overcame the plague.”

And again, you defeated it, and again and again and again.

You refused to admit that mass testing is ineffective, despite your own contingency plans explicitly stating so (“Pandemic Influenza Health System Preparedness Plan, 2007”, p. 26).

You refused to admit that recovery is more protective than a vaccine, despite previous knowledge and observations showing that non-recovered vaccinated people are more likely to be infected than recovered people.

You refused to admit that the vaccinated are contagious despite the observations. Based on this, you hoped to achieve herd immunity by vaccination – and you failed in that as well.

You insisted on ignoring the fact that the disease is dozens of times more dangerous for risk groups and older adults than for young people who are not in risk groups, despite the knowledge that came from China as early as 2020.

You refused to adopt the “Barrington Declaration”, signed by more than 60,000 scientists and medical professionals, or other common-sense programs.

You chose to ridicule, slander, distort, and discredit them.

(Banned YouTube videos: How Israeli Ministry of Health deleted thousands of testimonies)

Instead of the right programs and people, you have chosen professionals who lack relevant training for pandemic management (physicists as chief government advisers, veterinarians, security officers, media personnel, and so on).

You have not set up an effective system for reporting side effects from the vaccines, and reports on side effects have even been deleted from your Facebook page.

Doctors avoid linking side effects to the vaccine, lest you persecute them as you did to some of their colleagues. You have ignored many reports of changes in menstrual intensity and menstrual cycle times.

You hid data that allows for objective and proper research (for example, you removed the data on passengers at Ben Gurion Airport). Instead, you chose to publish non-objective articles together with senior Pfizer executives on the effectiveness and safety of vaccines.

Irreversible damage to trust.

However, from the heights of your hubris, you have also ignored the fact that the truth will be revealed in the end. And it begins to be revealed. The truth is that you have brought the public’s trust in you to an unprecedented low, and you have eroded your status as a source of authority.

The truth is that you have burned hundreds of billions of shekels to no avail – for publishing intimidation, for ineffective tests, for destructive lockdowns, and for disrupting the routine of life in the last two years.

You have destroyed the education of our children and their future. As school principals around the country attest, you made children feel guilty, scared, smoke, drink, get addicted, drop out, and quarrel. You have harmed livelihoods, the economy, human rights, mental health, and physical health.

You slandered colleagues who did not surrender to you, you turned the people against each other, divided society, and polarized the discourse. You branded, without any scientific basis, people who chose not to get vaccinated as enemies of the public and as spreaders of disease.

In an unprecedented way, you promote a draconian policy of discrimination, denial of rights, and selection of people, including children, for their medical choice. A selection that lacks any epidemiological justification.

When you compare the destructive policies you are pursuing with the sane policies of some other countries – you can clearly see that the destruction you have caused has only added victims beyond the vulnerable to the virus.

The economy you ruined, the unemployed you caused, and the children whose education you destroyed – are the surplus victims as a result of your actions only.

There is currently no medical emergency, but you have been cultivating such a condition for two years now because of lust for power, budgets, and control.

The only emergency now is that you still set policies and hold huge budgets for propaganda and consciousness engineering instead of directing them to strengthen the health care system.

This emergency must stop!

Professor Udi Qimron, Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University

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