Israel has chosen to achieve herd immunity through vaccines. Since last Sunday, stores and many commercial centers in the city center have been open for business. Hotels and gyms can also be accessed easily by showing the “vaccine passport”. Life in Tel Aviv seems to have returned to normal.
An Israeli study found that the vaccine was 85 percent effective in preventing symptomatic neonatal infections and 94 percent effective in fighting symptomatic infections 15 to 28 days after the first dose of the Pfizer and BioNTech neonatal vaccine. Therefore, the Israeli government decided to lift some of the outbreak control measures on Feb. 21 in order to boost the economy.
After Israel became the country with the highest rate of New Crown vaccination in the world, its infection and transmission data helped scientists understand the true role of the New Crown vaccine in the population.18 A paper published in The Lancet said that from December 2020 to January 2021, 89 of 120,575 people who were not vaccinated were diagnosed with New Crown pneumonia; of those within 1-14 days of first vaccination 55 out of 100,433 people infected, a 26% drop in infection rate; and only 26 out of 88,126 people infected within 15-28 days of first vaccination, a 60% drop in infection rate.
Ran Balicer, chairman of Israel’s national panel of experts on combating the disease, said the vaccine has two major effects, the first being the direct effect, which is The prevention of neocrown pneumonia infection and its severe form. The second is the indirect effect, which is the ability of the vaccine to create immunity in a large enough number of people to stop the Epidemic and prevent further spread of the virus.
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