IMPACT: Preliminary RWE on effectiveness of single dose of Pfizer vaccine;
1st dose of the Pfizer vaccine seen to curb infection rates by 50% within
14 days; data from 800,000 vaccinated patients
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*1. “Initial data from Israel’s vaccination campaign shows that Pfizer’s
coronavirus vaccine curbs infections by some 50 percent 14 days after the
first of two shots is administered, a top Health Ministry official said
Tuesday, as the country’s serious COVID-19 cases, daily infections and
total active cases all reach all-time peaks.” *
*2. “Sharon Alroy-Preis, head of the Health Ministry’s public health
department, told Channel 12 News that the data was preliminary, and based
on the results of coronavirus tests among both those who’ve received the
vaccine and those who haven’t.” *
*3. “Separate figures recorded by the Maccabi health provider and aired by
Channel 12 showed the vaccine caused a 60% drop in the chances for
infection 14 days after taking the first shot.” *
*4. “Health Ministry sources and experts have in recent days been cited by
various news outlets in reporting that the exit from Israel’s latest strict
lockdown, imposed Friday, will likely take time, be gradual and depend on
the vaccination rate and the trend seen in serious COVID-19 cases.” *
*5. “Health officials told Channel 12 Monday that based on the recent
agreement reached with the Pfizer pharmaceutical company, each week will
see shipments of hundreds of thousands of vaccine doses land in Israel.” *
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