Only 0.04% of Israelis got COVID-19 after two injections of Pfizer vaccine

A total of 371 out of 715,425 Israelis who are at least a week after receiving two doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine contracted the virus, a rate of around 0.04%, with 16 sent to hospital, according to a Ministry of Health report released. Thursday: Immunity to COVID-19 is said to start one week after receiving the second dose of Pfizer vaccine, according to studies conducted by Pfizer, the vaccine was around 95% effective – which is considered very high . Israeli data appears to confirm the effectiveness of the inoculation, showing even more promising results. Later in the date, the Maccabi health fund – one of four in Israel – released the first results of the vaccination campaign of its members, which the organization also compared. data from a control group that was not vaccinated. Some 248,000 Maccabi members were already a week after the second shot on Thursday. Of these, only 66 were infected with the virus, the majority of them over the age of 55 and about half of them with pre-existing conditions. All those infected had only a mild form of the disease and none were hospitalized.During the same period, 8,250 new cases of COVID-19 appeared in the control group of about 900,000 people with a diverse health profile. Those who were not vaccinated were therefore 11 times more likely to contract the disease than those who were immunized, showing a 92% efficacy. “The fact that seven to 18 days after receiving the second dose of the vaccine shows 92% efficacy is very encouraging data,” commented Dr Anat Aka Zohar, Head of the Information and Digital Health Division at Maccabi.

“We will continue to monitor the situation to see if the number increases and reaches the 95% demonstrated in the Pfizer study.” Israel has established itself as a central vaccination center. To date, more than 3 million people have received the first dose of Pfizer vaccine – 82% of those over 60 – and 1.5 million vaccines. Since Thursday, the country has vaccinated people as young as 35, at a rate of 200,000 injections. One day.