IMPACT: The power of numbers…real-world data from 3.5 million vaccinated Israeli’s shows impact/ effectiveness of the
Pfizer vaccine during early phase of roll out.
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*1. “Among the first fully-vaccinated group there was a 53% reduction in
new cases, a 39% decline in hospitalizations and a 31% drop in severe
illnesses from mid-January until Feb. 6, said Eran Segal, data scientist at
the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.” *
*2. “(Graphic: Trends in COVID-19 infections and hospitalisations in Israel
following vaccination – ). In the same period, among people under age 60
who became eligible for shots later, new cases dropped 20% but
hospitalizations and severe illness rose 15% and 29%, respectively.” *
*3. “Reuters interviewed leading scientists in Israel and abroad, Israeli
health officials, hospital heads and two of the country’s largest
healthcare providers about what new data shows from the world’s most
efficient vaccine rollout.” *
*4. “As a small country with universal healthcare, advanced data
capabilities and the promise of a swift rollout, Israel provided Pfizer
with a unique opportunity to study the real-world impact of the vaccine
developed with Germany’s BioNTech. But the company said it remained
“difficult to forecast the precise time when herd protection may start to
manifest” because of many variables at play, including social distancing
measures and the number of new infections generated by each case, known as
the reproduction rate.” *
*5. “VACCINES AND TRANSMISSION. There may be early signs that vaccinations
are tamping down virus transmission in addition to illness. At Israel’s
biggest COVID-19 testing centre, run by MyHeritage, researchers have
tracked a significant decrease in the amount of virus infected people
carry, known as cT value, among the most-vaccinated age groups.” *
Source URL:
https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-israel-results-insigh-idUSKBN2AA0N0