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and just a few months ago it seemed as though israel was out of the pandemic. the restrictions were off. they had a handful of positive cases per day. then came the delta variant. i spoke with the head of the israeli covid advisory group and he said while the high case numbers are concerning he is a little bit optimistic now because of the booster shot. take a listen. >> i am much more optimistic than two weeks ago. it seems like that the third booster shots are doing what they were supposed to do. they are reducing morbidity and severe illness among the elderly that received them and now that we have opened the vaccine to everybody over the age of 40 and i, myself, got the shot today, i think that we will see not only reduction in severe cases, but actually a reduction in the basic reproductive number in the transmission rates in all age groups. >> reporter: and so now there is a question of when will the eligibility for the booster shot be expanded.