{"id":9636,"date":"2021-05-06T17:00:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T00:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9636"},"modified":"2021-05-07T17:01:34","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T00:01:34","slug":"impact-and-effectiveness-of-mrna-bnt162b2-vaccine-against-sars-cov-2-infections-and-covid-19-cases-hospitalisations-and-deaths-following-a-nationwide-vaccination-campaign-in-israel-an-observational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/06\/impact-and-effectiveness-of-mrna-bnt162b2-vaccine-against-sars-cov-2-infections-and-covid-19-cases-hospitalisations-and-deaths-following-a-nationwide-vaccination-campaign-in-israel-an-observational\/","title":{"rendered":"Impact and Effectiveness of MRNA BNT162b2 Vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 Infections and COVID-19 Cases, Hospitalisations, and Deaths Following a Nationwide Vaccination Campaign in Israel: An Observational Study Using National Surveillance Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Estimated real-world vaccine effectiveness 7 days or more after the second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was 95% against SARS-CoV-2 infection according to analysis of national surveillance data from Israel (n=4.7 million) between January to April 2021After adjustment for age, sex, and week of infection, estimated vaccine effectiveness was 92% against aymptomatic infection and 97% against symptomatic infection. The authors calculated that vaccination lead to a 97% reduction in COVID-19-related hospitalization and a 97% reduction in i COVID-19-related death. 95% of tested specimens from a nationwide convenience sample (n=8,472) during the analysis period showed spike gene target failure, indicating a high prevalence of infections caused by the B.1.1.7 variant.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Haas et al.\u00a0(May 6, 2021). Impact and Effectiveness of MRNA BNT162b2 Vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 Infections and COVID-19 Cases, Hospitalisations, and Deaths Following a Nationwide Vaccination Campaign in Israel: An Observational Study Using National Surveillance Data. The Lancet. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S0140-6736(21)00947-8\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S0140-6736(21)00947-8<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Estimated real-world vaccine effectiveness 7 days or more after the second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was 95% against SARS-CoV-2 infection according to analysis of national surveillance data from Israel (n=4.7 million) between January to April 2021After adjustment for age, sex, and week of infection, estimated vaccine effectiveness was 92% against aymptomatic infection and 97%&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/06\/impact-and-effectiveness-of-mrna-bnt162b2-vaccine-against-sars-cov-2-infections-and-covid-19-cases-hospitalisations-and-deaths-following-a-nationwide-vaccination-campaign-in-israel-an-observational\/\">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":[33],"topic":[31],"class_list":["post-9636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-vaccines","topic-vaccines-and-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9636","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=9636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9637,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9636\/revisions\/9637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9636"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}