(Washington Post) Steve Hendrix - Israel's fastest-in-the-world vaccine campaign, which reached half its citizens as of Sunday, is offering the first real-life look at how mass inoculation can bend the trajectory of the coronavirus pandemic. A rush of Israeli medical research reveals that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is even more effective than hoped at preventing serious disease and death, safe for nearly all adults, and almost completely free of serious side effects. Almost 90% of Israelis over 50 have been fully vaccinated. A major study showed a 93% plunge in serious Covid disease and death among the vaccinated. The digitized medical file kept on almost every Israeli has allowed scientists to track the vaccine's impact with unprecedented speed. Yet the country's rate of infection remains stubbornly high, apparently driven by the arrival of variant strains.
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