{"id":5216,"date":"2021-02-26T21:19:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T05:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5216"},"modified":"2021-02-26T21:19:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T05:19:47","slug":"reduction-in-covid-19-patients-requiring-mechanical-ventilation-following-implementation-of-a-national-covid-19-vaccination-program-israel-december-2020-february-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/26\/reduction-in-covid-19-patients-requiring-mechanical-ventilation-following-implementation-of-a-national-covid-19-vaccination-program-israel-december-2020-february-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Reduction in COVID-19 Patients Requiring Mechanical Ventilation Following Implementation of a National COVID-19 Vaccination Program \u2014 Israel, December 2020\u2013February 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>In Israel, the ratio of COVID-19 patients over the age of 70 requiring mechanical ventilation declined 67% compared to those under 50 from October\u2013December 2020 to February 2021 after a national immunization program resulting in a 2-dose vaccination coverage of 84% among people over the age of 70. The authors suggest that this provides preliminary evidence that the nationwide vaccination campaign has been effective in reducing severe COVID-19 requiring mechanical ventilation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Rinott et al. (Feb 26, 2021). Reduction in COVID-19 Patients Requiring Mechanical Ventilation Following Implementation of a National COVID-19 Vaccination Program \u2014 Israel, December 2020\u2013February 2021. MMWR. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm7009e3\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm7009e3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Israel, the ratio of COVID-19 patients over the age of 70 requiring mechanical ventilation declined 67% compared to those under 50 from October\u2013December 2020 to February 2021 after a national immunization program resulting in a 2-dose vaccination coverage of 84% among people over the age of 70. The authors suggest that this provides preliminary&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/26\/reduction-in-covid-19-patients-requiring-mechanical-ventilation-following-implementation-of-a-national-covid-19-vaccination-program-israel-december-2020-february-2021\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[34],"topic":[31],"class_list":["post-5216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-clinical-characteristics","topic-vaccines-and-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5217,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5216\/revisions\/5217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5216"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}