At this rate,

at what point will Israel be at post-corona?

If you define the post-corona as,

at what point do we get to 7 million people vaccinated with two doses, then we're looking at mid-April or so.

And so I would say that the sense is this is essentially behind us.

Welcome to post-Corona, where we try to understand COVID-19's lasting impact on the economy, culture, and

geopolitics.

I'm Dan Senor. How will we know when we actually arrive at the post- Corona phase?

How do we even define such a thing?

Well, the milestone along the way will be getting entire populations vaccinated.

One country may show us the way.

Israel, which officially launched its vaccination campaign on December 20th, is outstripping the

rest of the world by orders of magnitude.

As we post this podcast, the US has vaccinated about 2% of its population.

Canada is at 0.5%, France is at 0.001%. And Israel? 20%. By the end of this week, Israel will have vaccinated

two-thirds of its population over 60 years old and most of the

country's medical staff at which point they will all be called back for their

second vaccination. My mother who lives in Jerusalem goes back for her second jab on Friday.

At this rate, some experts project Israel could be officially in post-Corona by the end of March,

far earlier than the rest of the world.

According to international studies, Israel's health care system has been ranked among the most efficient

in the world, and partly due to big data and AI, the Israeli health system is certainly one of the most

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