At the press conference held today (Sunday) by Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz and senior members of the health system, the first results of a joint study by the Hebrew University, the Technion, the Weizmann Institute and the Gartner Research Institute were presented, ahead of the publication of the study in a professional journal.
The findings presented showed that the third dose increases the protection against infection and morbidity tenfold compared to the vaccinated who received a second dose more than six months ago.
When the protection from the third dose is significant already a week after receiving it.
Additional data presented show a jump in the number of severe patients in the fourth wave - five, six and seven months after the second vaccine.
According to the data, 9% of patients in severe condition over the age of 60 were vaccinated five months ago, 39% were vaccinated six months ago and 36% were vaccinated seven months ago.
Among severely ill patients aged less than 60, 4% were vaccinated six months ago and 5% seven months ago.
The data presented by the Ministry of Health,
The study included about one million eligible for the vaccine between July 30 and August 22.
The surgery compared the chances of infection and serious illness of people who were vaccinated with the third dose to those of people who were vaccinated with two doses of vaccine.
The effects of age, gender, sector, vaccination dates and time elapsed from receiving the second dose were taken into account.
The study showed that the booster dose provides 10 times improved protection against infection and severe illness among those who chose to be vaccinated with a third dose, compared with those who were vaccinated with only two doses.
The study demonstrates the effectiveness of administering a third vaccine dose in preventing infection and preventing serious illness, and gives an indication of the potential for reducing the morbidity of the Delta variant by impulse.
People are waiting in line to be vaccinated for corona in the night vaccine van set up in Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv.
Archive // Photo: Elyashiv Rakovsky / TPS,
Dr. Sharon Elrai Price, Head of Public Health Services at the Ministry of Health: “One study shows us that as time goes by the time a person is vaccinated decreases.
So people who were vaccinated in January are twice as likely to get sick than those who were vaccinated in March.
We realized that protection from the vaccine was declining.
Another study shows that the third dose increases 10 times protection against infection and serious illness compared to vaccinated people who received a second dose more than half a year ago.
In other words, the third dose reduces not only serious illness but also the risk of being verified. "
According to the decisions made, starting on October 1, the green label will be canceled for those who have passed more than five months of receiving the second dose. In addition, as first reported in "Israel Today", from September 3, those vaccinated in a third dose (a week receives the same vaccine) will be exempt from isolation back from abroad from orange countries, and will have to stay in isolation only until the corona test results are obtained.