'Pfizer COVID vaccine significantly less effective against Delta variant'
At the moment, around 60% of the patients in serious conditions were vaccinated.
jpost.com
The effectiveness of the Pfizer vaccine against the Delta variant is “weaker” than health officials hoped, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Friday, as 858 people tested positive for coronavirus and more countries were added to the list of places having high infection rates.
“We do not know exactly to what degree the vaccine helps, but it is significantly less,” Bennett said.
...Of those infected, 49 were in serious condition, five fewer than the day before. One week earlier, on July 10, there were 39. In April, with about 5,900 active cases, similar to the current number, more than 340 patients were in serious condition.
The likely explanation is that among the current virus carriers, some 2,000 are schoolchildren, and half of them were fully vaccinated. Both groups are very unlikely to develop severe forms of the disease, even though it occasionally happens. At the moment, around 60% of the patients in serious conditions were vaccinated. |
