Israel says the Delta variant is infecting vaccinated people, representing as
many as 50% of new cases. But they're less severe.
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Israel says the Delta variant is infecting vaccinated people, representi...
Marianne Guenot
With a fast vaccine rollout, Israel had thought it was freed of the
coronavirus. Then the Delta variant came.
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On Wednesday, July 21, 2021, 02:22:37 PM EDT, Cyndiann Phillips
<[email protected]> wrote:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/absolutely-remarkable-no-one-who-got-modernas-vaccine-trial-developed-severe-covid-19
Only 11 people who received two doses of the vaccine developed COVID-19
symptoms after being infected with the pandemic coronavirus, versus 185
symptomatic cases in a placebo group. That is an efficacy of 94.1%, the company
says, far above what many vaccine scientists were expecting just a few weeks
ago.
More impressive still, Moderna’s candidate had 100% efficacy against severe
disease. There were zero such COVID-19 cases among those vaccinated, but 30 in
the placebo group, including one death from the disease.
