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Battling COVID: Weekly Update

Tuesday, December 8, 2020

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Shoshanna Solomon

30,000 feet above virus-stricken planet, a terrifying view of the way we are now

The FlyDubai plane to the UAE was packed, and I was paranoid: Forget terrorism or crashing, it was a simple cough that now had me wondering if we can ever go home again

A FlyDubai flight from Tel Aviv to Dubai on December 7, 2020. (Shoshanna Solomon/ Times of Israel)

Israeli donuts sold at the Roladin bakery ahead of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, outside the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, on December 7, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Lights out: Ministers okay nightly curfew on Hanukkah to drive down virus cases

Policy to be implemented from Wednesday, remain in force until January 2; coronavirus czar skeptical it’ll be effective

Healthcare workers take test samples from Israelis to check if they have been infected with the coronavirus in Lod, on December 1, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Daily virus case count jumps to over 1,800 ahead of nightly curfew

A man walks outside the Church of the Nativity, traditionally believed to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ, in the West Bank City of Bethlehem, Monday, Nov. 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Palestinians to lock down 4 West Bank governorates on Thursday

By Aaron Boxerman

90-year-old Margaret Keenan, the first patient in the UK to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, administered by nurse May Parsons at University Hospital, Coventry, England, Dec. 8, 2020 (Jacob King/Pool via AP)

‘V-Day’: UK rolls out trailblazing coronavirus vaccine program as world looks on

By DANICA KIRKA

Initial 800,000 doses slated to begin to be given to people over 80 who are hospitalized or already have appointments scheduled, in West’s first major inoculation campaign

Volunteers are given the Moderna mRNA-1273 Coronavirus Efficacy (COVE), in Detroit, Michigan, on August 5, 2020. (AFP, courtesy of the Henry Ford Health System)

US aims to deliver millions of vaccines within 24 hours of approval

By Ivan Couronne

A UK National Health Service pharmacy technician at the Royal Free Hospital, simulates the preparation of the Pfizer vaccine to support staff training ahead of the rollout, in London, December 4, 2020. (Yui Mok/Pool Photo via AP)

Trump administration passed up chance to lock in more Pfizer vaccine doses

By Zeke Miller and Jonathan Lemire

Illustrative: An NHS pharmacy technician at the Royal Free Hospital, simulates the preparation of the Pfizer vaccine to support staff training ahead of the rollout, in London, December 4, 2020. (Yui Mok/Pool Photo via AP)

Israel to get first batch of Pfizer coronavirus vaccines on Thursday — reports

Some 100,000 doses said set to arrive at Ben Gurion Airport, accompanied by company representatives, as pilot for transit and storage of larger amounts

Health Ministry said aiming to vaccinate 2 million Israelis in six-week drive

Anar Ottolenghi receives a dose of coronavirus vaccine developed by the Israel Institute for Biological Research at Jerusalem's Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital, November 1, 2020 (Courtesy)

Citing logistics know-how, IDF offers to aid distribution of COVID-19 vaccines

By Judah Ari Gross

Analysis

Closer to 80 than 70, with a history of heart disease, I signed up for the trial

If science shows that the COVID-19 vaccine works, you should take it, for the medical team is fundamentally partnering with God to fix the world

Jonathan Rothberg aboard his superyacht Gene Machine with his home coronavirus test, Detect. (Courtesy)

Interview

On land and sea, US presidential-honored scientist works toward home virus test

By Rich Tenorio

California doctor Taylor Nichols speaks to ABC News (video screenshot)

American Jewish doctor shocked to find Nazi tattoos on COVID-19 patient

By AFP and ToI Staff

Taylor Nichols speaks of the challenge of attending to a man who may not have done the same for him, while ultimately doing everything to save the patient’s life

A medic in a protective suit and mask holds an injection syringe and vaccine. (oshcherban via iStock by Getty Images)

Interview

Expert: 6 vaccine hurdles mean we’re ‘nowhere near’ Israel-wide immunity in 2021

Top epidemiologist says that with inoculations wowing in trials, ‘there’s light at the end of the tunnel — we just don’t know the length of the tunnel’

Screen capture from video of Rochelle Walensky, chief of the infectious diseases division at Massachusetts General Hospital. (YouTube)

Biden to tap Jewish doctor as Centers for Disease Control chief

By AFP and ToI Staff

Rochelle Walensky is head of infectious diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital; US president-elect to nominate California attorney general Xavier Becerra as secretary of health

National Economic Council Director Jeff Zients, sitting next to Domestic Policy Council Director Cecilia Munoz, speaks during the daily briefing in the South Court Auditorium at the White House in Washington on February 9, 2016, to discuss President Barack Obama's fiscal 2017 federal budget. (AP/Susan Walsh)

Bagel czarBiden COVID adviser also owns DC ‘Jew-ish’ deli ‘Call Your Mother’

Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews defy coronavirus restrictions to attend a funeral for Rabbi Yisroel Chaim Menashe Friedman, a longtime judge of the Satmar rabbinic court in Brooklyn on December 7, 2020 (Screencapture/New York Post)

Thousands again defy restrictions to attend Brooklyn ultra-Orthodox funeral

Funeral for Satmar rabbinic court judge Rabbi Yisroel Chaim Menashe Friedman, 94, held at same Williamsburg synagogue where authorities barred a mass wedding in October

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men attend the funeral of late Rabbi Aharon David Hadash, spiritual leader of the Mir Yeshiva, in Jerusalem, on December 3, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Thousands attend Jerusalem funeral of top rabbi who died from COVID-19

Illustrative: Hundreds of mourners gather in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Tuesday, April 28, 2020, to observe a funeral for Rabbi Chaim Mertz, a Hasidic Orthodox leader whose death was reportedly tied to the coronavirus. (Peter Gerber via AP)

US Orthodox Jews’ COVID revelation: Protecting religious rights takes a village

Illustrative: People wearing face masks walk on Jaffa Street in downtown Jerusalem on December 7, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Pandemic plunging Israelis into depression, depleting ‘bounce back’ ability

By Nathan Jeffay

A third of Israelis have high anxiety and one in five has high levels of depression, study indicates, with young adults hit hardest

More Headlines

Chevra Kadisha workers wearing protective clothing carry the body of a patient who died from complications of COVID-19 at the Shamgar Funeral Home in Jerusalem on April 1, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Pandemic pushes number of deaths in Israel in March-October up 9% from 2019

People wearing a face mask walk in the Jerusalem city center on November 29, 2020, as Israel steps out of its coronavirus lockdown and rolls back restrictions. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Unemployment drops as businesses return from lockdown

Self-employed, small business owners and activists participate in a rally calling for financial support from the government in Tel Aviv, May 2, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

OECD sees Israel economy grow 2.3% in 2021, below global average

By Shoshanna Solomon

Houston's Chabad chapter lights a large menorah at City Hall every year. (YJP Houston via JTA)

Everything's bigger in...Deep in the heart of Texas, mega show of Hanukkah festivities must go on

An entrance to a Moderna building, May 18, 2020, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (AP/Bill Sikes)

Israel signs with Moderna to triple upcoming vaccine supply

Students return to school in Tel aviv on December 6, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Israel’s school system now open for all students as another lockdown looms

Likud MK David Bitan at the Knesset on July 31, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud MK David Bitan contracts COVID-19, has mild symptoms

Israelis at a street party on Levinsky Street in South Tel Aviv held in apparent violation of coronavirus restrictions, December 4, 2020. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Party like it’s 2019: Maskless revelers in Tel Aviv shun social distancing rules

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