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Israeli study finds 94% drop in symptomatic COVID-19 cases with Pfizer vaccine

Posted by ty97 Feb 14 '21, 23:01

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel’s largest healthcare provider on Sunday reported a 94% drop in symptomatic COVID-19 infections among 600,000 people who received two doses of the Pfizer’s vaccine in the country’s biggest study to date.

Health maintenance organization (HMO) Clalit, which covers more than half of all Israelis, said the same group was also 92% less likely to develop severe illness from the virus.

Basically confirms the clinical trial results (www.reuters.com)

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Which is amazing. I wonder if more vaccines in the future will be mRNA based. It seems the older methods aren't coming close. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Feb 14, 23:20 6
- From what I've read, yes. And from this process they think they can produce them with lightning speed. Weeks (not months or years). -- nm - pmb Feb 15, 06:27
- I think it's an excellent bet. It has the chance to be revolutionary tech. -- nm - Reagen Feb 15, 05:23
- I wouldn't want to get that third one. (Johnson & Johnson I think? Like 65% effective?) -- nm - Ender Feb 14, 23:23 3
  - 65% is a lot better than nothing. -- nm - znufrii Feb 15, 06:14
  - It's still more effective than the flu shot is most years. -- (edited) - Fozzie Baron Feb 15, 06:07
  - but...nobody who got this shot needed hospitalization, much less died, so that sounds effective to me, since it works differently get it first then... - zeitgeist Feb 15, 02:10

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