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The COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer / BioNTech, injected in two doses, prevents almost all cases of COVID-19, reports the British Daily Mail. According to the newspaper, this is suggested by a study conducted in Israel – the country that has so far fully vaccinated the largest number of people in the world. The New York Times is more cautious about this, but the results are “amazing” anyway. Get to know the details.
- Daily Mail: Initial Israeli Research: Two Doses Of Pfizer Provide 99,96% Efficacy
- The New York Times is more cautious: so far a study from Israel suggests that vaccine effectiveness may be higher than 95%.
- The study included 700 thousand. people vaccinated with both doses of Pfizer. About 300 people became infected, 16 of them required hospitalization
- Infectious diseases specialist, prof. Eyal Leshem: The preliminary findings are quite amazing, that’s very good news
- More current information can be found on the Onet homepage.
Pfizer Vaccine Effectiveness (With Both Doses)
The COVID-19 vaccine gives 95 percent. protection against coronavirus. This was shown by randomized (random), controlled studies involving about 44 thousand. people aged 16 or over. The results concerned a situation in which both doses of the preparation were administered within the recommended interval of several weeks.
As reported by the Daily Mail, preliminary analyzes conducted in Israel, which is the world leader in terms of vaccination coverage, suggest that the effectiveness of the preparation reaches 99,96%. In other words, giving two doses of Comirnata (the name of the vaccine developed by Pfizer / BioNTech) within a few weeks to prevent almost all cases of COVID-19.
The New York Times is more cautious about this. The journal notes that so far The Israeli study suggests that vaccine effectiveness may be higher than 95%, but emphasizes that comparisons with unvaccinated people have not yet been published. The authors of the study also make a reservation that these are preliminary analyzes, and more detailed works are planned soon.
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The study included 700 thousand. people vaccinated with both doses of Pfizer. In this group, only 0,04 percent. people became infected with COVID-19. That’s about 300 people. Only 16 of them required hospitalization. Analyzes published by Israeli health services also suggest that the vaccine exhibits protection against the more infectious British variant.
“The initial findings are pretty amazing”, this is “very good news” – comments the Israeli infectious disease specialist Prof. Eyal Leshem. – After the first dose, the incidence of infections dropped significantly, after two, it was only 0,04%. He says, adding, “We still have to collect data, but these are very encouraging preliminary reports.”
“This is what we call true proof of vaccine effectiveness”
In Israel, 32,9 percent have received at least one dose of the vaccine so far. society, and 17,3 percent. received both doses of the preparation. As recalculated by ourworldindata.org, 1,4 million Israelis are fully vaccinated.
Source: https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations
On the other hand, the country has one of the highest increases in infections since the beginning of the epidemic. On January 20, over 10 thousand. new confirmed infections, on January 28, there were over 7 thousand.
Source: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/israel/
Professor Leshem comments: – On the one hand, we are seeing very high transmission rates – the highest we have experienced since the beginning of the epidemic. But when we look at the hundreds of thousands of vaccinated Israelis – they don’t get infected (…) And even in those rare cases of infection after vaccination, patients get the disease mildly – only a few have had to be admitted to hospital. This is what we call the real proof of vaccine effectiveness – high vaccine effectiveness – emphasizes the scientist.
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Leshem points out that the majority of vaccinated people are over the age of 60, which makes the results even more remarkable.
Preliminary Israeli health care analyzes have also found a significant reduction in COVID-19 cases among those who received a single dose of the vaccine.
As part of the cooperation agreement, Israel provides Pfizer with weekly updates on vaccination campaign data.
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