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Israel's Minister of Health came out yesterday and said theyre seeing only 39% effectiveness now (delta). Based on prior reporting, Israel's vaccination program
by thomquaid 5y ago
Israel's Minister of Health came out yesterday and said theyre seeing only 39% effectiveness now (delta). Based on prior reporting, Israel's vaccination program seemed to be the best in the world.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-23/pfizer-shot-just-39-effective-in-halting-delta-israel-says https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-23/pfizer-sh...
- lamontcg 5y agoThat is effectiveness against infection. The efficacy against transmission will be higher. When the virus infects someone that is vaccinated there are less symptoms, less viral load and less risk of further transmission. And I don't think anyone has done a study on the efficacy of vaccination preventing superspreading, but I suspect that vaccinated individuals are rarely, if ever, superspreaders. Also that is contradicted by the NEJM study today that finds that Pfizer is still 88% effective against Delta: https://globalnews.ca/news/8050563/pfizer-astrazeneca-vaccine-delta-variant/ https://globalnews.ca/news/8050563/pfizer-astrazeneca-vaccin...