Pfizer vaccine 95.8% effective according to Israel

The Israeli Ministry of Health said on Saturday that inoculation of the two doses of the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine was 95.8% effective against the contraction of Covid-19, two weeks after inoculation of the second dose.

It would also be 99.2% effective in preventing serious forms and 98.9% in preventing death.

The Jewish state launched a massive vaccination campaign on December 19, considered one of the fastest in the world, thanks to a deal with Pfizer allowing Israel to quickly obtain millions of doses in exchange for data biomedical studies on the effect of the vaccine.

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So far, 4.25 million people in Israel (out of a population of nine million) have received the first dose of the vaccine, according to the latest figures from the Ministry of Health.

Of these, 2.88 million received the necessary second dose.

The data, compiled up to February 13, showed that the vaccination is also effective one week after inoculation of the second dose: at 91.9% to prevent the contraction of the virus, at 96.4% to prevent the forms severe disease and 94.5% to prevent death.