{"id":9408,"date":"2021-04-26T09:54:08","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T16:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9408"},"modified":"2021-04-28T09:54:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T16:54:49","slug":"protection-of-previous-sars-cov-2-infection-is-similar-to-that-of-bnt162b2-vaccine-protection-a-three-month-nationwide-experience-from-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/26\/protection-of-previous-sars-cov-2-infection-is-similar-to-that-of-bnt162b2-vaccine-protection-a-three-month-nationwide-experience-from-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Protection of Previous SARS-CoV-2 Infection Is Similar to That of BNT162b2 Vaccine Protection A Three-Month Nationwide Experience from Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> A population-based study in Israel found that the level of protection against reinfection conferred by prior infection with SARS-CoV-2 within the last 6 months was similar to that elicited by the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine among people who had no prior infection. Vaccine effectiveness against severe disease was 66% for individuals followed from the day of the first dose until 6 days after the second dose.\u00a0 Overall vaccine efficacy was 94% for those followed from a week after the second dose and beyond.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Goldberg et al.\u00a0(Apr 24, 2021). Protection of Previous SARS-CoV-2 Infection Is Similar to That of BNT162b2 Vaccine Protection A Three-Month Nationwide Experience from Israel. Pre-print downloaded Apr 26 from <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2021.04.20.21255670v1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2021.04.20.21255670v1<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] A population-based study in Israel found that the level of protection against reinfection conferred by prior infection with SARS-CoV-2 within the last 6 months was similar to that elicited by the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine among people who had no prior infection. Vaccine effectiveness against severe disease was 66% for individuals followed from the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/26\/protection-of-previous-sars-cov-2-infection-is-similar-to-that-of-bnt162b2-vaccine-protection-a-three-month-nationwide-experience-from-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":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[32],"topic":[31],"class_list":["post-9408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-immunity","topic-vaccines-and-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9408","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=9408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9409,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9408\/revisions\/9409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9408"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}