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The research underscores the limitations of the health care system’s frequent reliance on broad self-reported race and ethnicity data to assess patients’ risk of developing disease, and the findings also support expanding genetic screening to more groups.
Health by Charis Chang It paid a sky-high price to access one of the best coronavirus vaccines in the world and also agreed to share data on the accelerated rollout - but Israel's expensive gamble seems to have paid off. The small country in the Middle East was late joining the line for the Pfizer vaccine behind the US, Canada and Japan, according to The Times of Israel, but it still managed to gain fast-tracked access to millions of doses. This was partly due to Israel paying a lot more for the vaccine - as much as double what the United States and ...
Initial findings in Israel, which have attracted worldwide attention, show that the coronavirus vaccinations work but that protection isn’t perfect
February 12, 2021 at 2:59 pm Researchers are getting the first real-world hints that a vaccine can curb the coronavirus’s spread, not just prevent people from getting seriously ill. People vaccinated with Pfizer’s shots and who still get infected with the coronavirus carry less virus in their bodies than unvaccinated people who are infected, researchers from Israel report in two separate preliminary studies posted February 8 at medRxiv.org. If the vaccines do reduce the spread of the virus, “it means that even people [who] aren’t vaccinated will gain protection from the vaccinated p...
Pfizer vaccinees less likely to pass coronavirus to others Findings indicate vaccination cuts risk of infecting others, reducing viral load by 1.6 to 20 times in vaccinated individuals who are Covid positive. February 9, 2021, 9:51 am An Israeli woman receives a Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine on February 7, 2021, in Hadera. Photo by Gili Yaari/Flash90 People who’ve received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccination against Covid-19 seem significantly less likely to “shed” or transmit virus particles that may be in their nose or throat. That is the finding of a study pre-published on February 8 ...