Wednesday, January 27, 2021

What the world can learn about immunity from Israel’s Covid-19 vaccine rollout

Recommendable! Tiny Israel with only about 9 million population! It is phenomenal how Israel has tackled this pandemic! Lot's learn!

The article also mentions that the SARS-CoV-2 mutations are rare, mostly harmless to infected humans, and sometimes even harmful to virus itself. 

"More than 1.3 million Israelis have already received both doses of the Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech. ...
studies showed the mRNA vaccines to be about 95 percent effective within a certain amount of time after the second dose. ...
Maccabi [HMOs] saw a 60% drop in Covid-19 hospitalizations among members aged 60 and over as little as two days after the second dose. ...
“We also know that statistically, the disease is less severe in the vaccinated [even one dose] than in the non-vaccinated.” ...
“In general, vaccine side effects are extremely rare. With the Covid vaccine, mostly people have been reporting minor side effects from the first dose when they come for the second dose,” ... These effects are mainly soreness or pain at the injection site in the arm ...
“We see only one to two mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 virus genome per month — which is not a lot compared to other viruses. Most mutations don’t cause any recognizable change in the virus and some actually harm the virus. It’s rare that a mutation gives a virus an advantage.” ..."

What the world can learn about immunity from Israel’s vaccine rollout - ISRAEL21c Israel's extraordinary vaccination program has provided a wealth of information about the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and it's impact.

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