Yes, that's pretty much what I said. They tracked each other before and after the vaccination. It did not result in Israel pulling away from Palestine.
65+ population
Israel 12.4%
Palestine 2.9%
All other things being equal Israel should have had it worse but they didn't. However, as we've both said that was the case quite consistently before and after Israel's massive vaccine rollout.
One other thing in that region. You'll hear people getting excited about Israeli boosters and how they've pushed down the curve of cases. Take a look at Cyrpus. Massive spike in cases (and a rise in deaths), peaked and crashed with little or no boosters 8 weeks before Israel.
Not all Jews in Israel are Sephardi. Not sure that comparing Ashkenazi Jews who've spent the last 2,000 years exiled in Europe (later the USA) with middle eastern Arabs shows similar genetics. For instance, even among Israeli Jews there is genetic testing for illnesses done for certain ethnic groups and not others.
"I think that's JBP's point. If the curves are indistinguishable that means Israel is actually doing better because they have an older population"
i think you're missing the point i was making:
if age was so impactful, why was it not a factor before vaccination?
they were literally identical once you time shift.
and israel is a VERY young country too.
whatever the variance, they performed indistinguishably before vaccines and then indistinguishably after.
so where is the case that vaccines bent the curve at all?
and why did israel see the same all cause mortality as least seasonal spike?
Yes, that's pretty much what I said. They tracked each other before and after the vaccination. It did not result in Israel pulling away from Palestine.
65+ population
Israel 12.4%
Palestine 2.9%
All other things being equal Israel should have had it worse but they didn't. However, as we've both said that was the case quite consistently before and after Israel's massive vaccine rollout.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/526596/age-structure-in-israel/
https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/palestine-population
One other thing in that region. You'll hear people getting excited about Israeli boosters and how they've pushed down the curve of cases. Take a look at Cyrpus. Massive spike in cases (and a rise in deaths), peaked and crashed with little or no boosters 8 weeks before Israel.
Not all Jews in Israel are Sephardi. Not sure that comparing Ashkenazi Jews who've spent the last 2,000 years exiled in Europe (later the USA) with middle eastern Arabs shows similar genetics. For instance, even among Israeli Jews there is genetic testing for illnesses done for certain ethnic groups and not others.