{"id":9328,"date":"2021-04-21T13:23:38","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T20:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9328"},"modified":"2021-04-22T13:24:24","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T20:24:24","slug":"covid-19-dynamics-after-a-national-immunization-program-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/21\/covid-19-dynamics-after-a-national-immunization-program-in-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Dynamics after a National Immunization Program in Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Two months after the initiation of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccination (Pfizer-BioNTech) campaign in Israel, there were declines in the number of cases (by 77%), percentage of positive tests (by 45%), number of hospitalizations (by 68%),<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">number of<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> severe hospitalizations <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(by 67%) compared to peak values<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The authors suggest that these results are likely driven by the vaccination program<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> since<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> declines were greater in individuals over 60 (who were prioritized to receive the vaccine earlier), and the declines<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the clinical measures occurred only after &gt;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">50% of the population in a given age group had been vaccinated or recovered. In addition, the<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> authors<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> note that there was not a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">similar decline in<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">number of cases and hospitalizations <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">among older adults during the previous lockdown (September 18 \u2013 October 18, 2020)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rossman et al.\u00a0(Apr 19, 2021). COVID-19 Dynamics after a National Immunization Program in Israel. Nature Medicine. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41591-021-01337-2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41591-021-01337-2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two months after the initiation of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccination (Pfizer-BioNTech) campaign in Israel, there were declines in the number of cases (by 77%), percentage of positive tests (by 45%), number of hospitalizations (by 68%), and number of severe hospitalizations (by 67%) compared to peak values. The authors suggest that these results are likely driven by&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/21\/covid-19-dynamics-after-a-national-immunization-program-in-israel\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[147],"topic":[31],"class_list":["post-9328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-vaccination","topic-vaccines-and-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9328","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9329,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9328\/revisions\/9329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9328"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}