Coronavirus in Israel: What do we know about the 143 hospitalized people?

Of the 143 hospitalized patients, 58% were vaccinated, 39% were not at all, and 3% were partially vaccinated.

Israel says Pfizer Covid vaccine is just 39% effective as delta spreads, but still prevents severe illness

People line up to receive a coronavirus vaccine at a mobile vaccination center in Israel earlier this month. (Ammar Awad/Reuters)

July 22, 2021 at 9:51 a.m. EDT

From the start of the worldwide coronavirus vaccination campaign, the anti-vaccine movement and vaccine skeptics picked an unfortunate case study: Israel. The country shot to the lead of the pack with an aggressive vaccination campaign, but its results weren’t as instantaneous as these critics suggested they should have been. Cases in Israel kept rising for a little while! So they pitched Israel as evidence that maybe the vaccines didn’t really work that well.