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Pfizer Inc. and The BioNTech SE Covid-19 vaccine appears to stop the vast majority of Israel’s beneficiaries from becoming infected, giving the first real-world indication that immunization will reduce coronavirus transmission.
The vaccine, which was launched in a national immunization program that began Dec. 20, was 89.4% effective in preventing laboratory-confirmed infections, according to a copy of a draft publication that was posted on Twitter and confirmed by a person familiar with the job. The companies and the Israeli Ministry of Health worked together on the preliminary observational analysis, which has not yet been evaluated by colleagues.
The results, also reported in Der Spiegel, are the last of a series of Positive data will emerge from Israel, which gave more Covid vaccines per capita than anywhere else in the world. Almost half of the population had at least one dose of vaccine. Separately, Israeli authorities said on Saturday that the Pfizer-BioNTech shooting was 99% effective prevention of deaths caused by the virus.
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Early results of laboratory-confirmed infections are important because they show that the vaccine can also prevent asymptomatic carriers from spreading the virus that causes Covid-19, which has not been clear until now. Stopping transmission in this way is a key factor, as countries try to lift contact restrictions and reopen economies.
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Pfizer and BioNTech said they are working on a real analysis of Israeli data, which will be distributed as soon as it is completed. Spokesmen declined to comment on unpublished data.
Four-fifths of Israeli virus cases during the study period, from January 17 to February 6, were the most transmissible strain first identified in the United Kingdom. Option 7 appeared, fueling infections and leading to a third blockage on January 8.
By February 6, about 27% of people decrepit In Israel, over 15 years they were completely vaccinated, Pfizer-BioNTech shooting the only vaccine available in the country at that time. People were considered fully vaccinated and included in the analysis if the data collected were more than 7 days after receiving the second dose.
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