Impressive data on the efficacy of the Pfizer covid vaccine continued to emerge on Thursday as Maccabi Healthcare Services in Israel announced that of the half million people it has given both doses to, only 544 — or 0.104% — have been diagnosed with the coronavirus.
An Israeli healthcare provider that has vaccinated half a million people with both doses of the Pfizer vaccine says that only 544 people — or 0.1% — have been subsequently diagnosed with the coronavirus, there have been four severe cases, and no people have died, Times of Israel reports.
That means the effectiveness rate stands at 93 percent, Maccabi Healthcare Services announced on Thursday.
Full protection for people who have been vaccinated is believed to kick in a week after the second shot, so the Maccabi data covers all those of its members who are seven or more days after receiving that second dose, Times of Israel reported.
Maccabi’s statistics are being closely monitored around the world, for giving the first major insight into how the vaccine performs outside of clinical trials. And they are being widely hailed for indicating that real-word effectiveness is close to the 95% efficacy cited after Pfizer’s clinical trials.
“This data unequivocally proves that the vaccine is very effective and we have no doubt that it has saved the lives of many Israelis,” said senior Maccabi official Dr. Miri Mizrahi Reuveni after the new data release.
She stressed that among those who have vaccinated and become infected, the vast majority have experienced the coronavirus lightly. Out of the 523,000 fully vaccinated people, 544 were infected with COVID, of whom 15 needed hospitalization: Eight are in mild condition, three in moderate condition, and four in severe condition.
“Anyone who has not been vaccinated so far, please hurry up and make an appointment as soon as possible,” she said. “Protect yourself from a serious illness and, God forbid, death as well as the possibility that you will infect and endanger others.”
Simply because they refuse to use the same standard of reporting as they did with covid deaths. There were lots of likely experimental vaccine deaths experienced soon after the vaccine that they ignored and blamed on commordities.
All reactions are accounted for in vaccine studies even minor ones, and directly compared against a control group. If there was an increase in any illness no matter how minor, that would be noticed and acted on.
How many ppl would have gotten the virus without the vaccine,and if infected how many would have gotten it severe? Im trying to understand how does the vaccine help those that are are vulnerable if it’s possible for them to get a serious case as a result of the vaccine?
That means t hat you will do serious and scholarly research – you will learn all about infections and contagion and all the science around it. Then you will understand.
The answer to your questions lie in this very article: While only 0.1% of those vaccinated got corona, the study determined that 7% of those vaccinated are still unimmune. The obvious assumption is that over a 6 week period, the average unimmune-to-covid israeli has a 1:70 odds of catching the virus. Also the rate of severe covid cases is 1:5 of positive cases, which, applied to those vaccinated should be 110 severe cases. That didn’t happen cuz the vaccine works. The rate of *severe* adverse effects is about 1:20000. This, the odds of an unvaccinated israeli catching severe covid over… Read more »
The VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting system) is a US government website and is managed by the CDC and FDA – https://vaers.hhs.gov/about.html One can go there and look up reported adverse reactions for every vaccine that has been rolled out. You can bring up data for the Covid vaccine in isolation for the United States. According VAERS – there has been 430 deaths in the US from the Pfizer and Moderna covid vaccines in the past week. Chances are that the figures are under reported. That figure does not include people who have been severly injured from the vaccine. Remember,… Read more »
It may have gone totally over your head, but if you had read even one line of the disclaimer on the VAERS search engine you would see that those numbers are for anything that happens after a vaccine is administered, even if it’s unrelated to the vaccine itself. That’s how careful the CDC and FDA are… That even if it’s unrelated to the vaccine they report any issues. What this means is even if a person Chas v’sholom was hit by a car and died after they got one of the vaccines it would have to be reported as a… Read more »
Interestingly, a person with comorbidities (e.g. they already had terminal late stage cancer and were in palliative care) automatically gets listed as a “Covid death” without further investigation required.
Yet, a different standard is applied to a person who died within hours or days of getting the experimental COVID vaccine.
That’s an interesting set of standards.
There’s no separate set of standards, please stop your fear mongering.
If they had Covid and they died due to a combination of a terminal illness and Covid then that makes sense to mark it as a Covid death. If someone has diabetes and then gets Covid and subsequently dies due to Covid, it should be noted as such.
Israel will be covid free and will be a safe haven for every jew