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Many of the viewers and partners of the forum would really like to know how you see the coming months in Israel and the world when it comes to the pandemic.

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When it comes to vaccination, I think you know vaccinated more than 70% of your people above 60 years old.

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I don't think anyone can then show the same kind of results.

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So please share with us because you are also still in a lockdown situation and the next steps.

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Prime Minister, floor is yours and welcome.

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Thank you. It's good to be with you, Brenda, and with your audience.

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Actually, we have vaccinated 82% of our about 60.

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That's not enough. We have to vaccinate, get them at least to 95%, which is a big task.

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But that's about the residual of those who really oppose vaccines.

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It's about 5%. So we should be able to.

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And I intend to get it up there for further.

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If you ask what's the challenge, we're in an arms race, except it's not an arms race.

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It's a race between vaccination and mutation.

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The mutations, especially the British mutation, but there'll be more mutations.

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There are more mutations. There'll be more mutations in the future.

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It means that we have to race as fast as we can to vaccinate first the risk groups in the population and then everyone else in order to give immunity.

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And then probably expect the companies that are producing the vaccines at this point to modify their vaccines to accommodate the mutations that they don't cover now as they develop.

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And then we'll have to purchase them.

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That's going to be our life for the coming years.

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I don't think that we're going to evade that, but we can overcome it.

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The reason we did well in Israel is, one, because we purchased a lot, fast.

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Didn't quibble about the price.

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I personally got involved in it.

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And I said just basically to the bureaucrats, cut the whatever.

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I want to be diplomatic, so cut the nonsense.

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Please feel free to share with us very candidly.

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Well, cut the C word in English.

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I mean, this is ridiculous.

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You know, you'll pay a few more dollars per dose now.

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Tomorrow, everybody will be paying 10 times that much.

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So, number one, that.

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Number two, the legal people.

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I actually was on the phone with the president of, with the CEO of Pfizer, Albert Bourla.

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I think at two o'clock in the morning, he put his legal advisor on.

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I put our legal advisor on, and we crashed it.

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So, you need personal leadership to move it.

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And basically, the selling point was a real one.

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It turns out to be true, that Israel could serve as a world laboratory for herd immunity

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or something approaching herd immunity very quickly.

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Because we have an efficient distribution system, we proved that with four HMOs

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that are at once competing and cooperating with each other.