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Israel By Hamodia Staff YERUSHALAYIM - A vial of the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File) The latest batch of data from the Israeli covid vaccination drive has shown the Pfizer vaccine to be 96.7 percent effective at preventing virus-related death, and 97.5% effective against serious illness. The study was published Wednesday in the leading peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet. “In Israel we can see the reality of what vaccines do all around us, but this research is important in quantifying it and documenting it for others around the world to see, and understand the full benefits of vaccines,” Bar Ilan University epidemiologist Prof. Michael Edelstein told The Times of Israel. ....
It is 97% effective in preventing symptomatic illness and 91.5% in protecting against asymptomatic infection. The researchers found that vaccines are 97.2% effective against COVID-19-related hospitalization. They stressed that vaccine benefits are felt across all ages, writing: “In all age groups, as vaccine coverage increased, the incidence of SARS-CoV-2 outcomes declined.” Using the full name for Pfizer’s vaccine, they stated: “Two doses of BNT162b2 are highly effective across all age groups in preventing symptomatic and asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections and COVID-19-related hospitalizations, severe disease and death, including those caused by the [British] variant. Tel Aviv University professor Jonathan Gershoni (courtesy) ....