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Israels largest healthcare provider on Sunday reported a 94 per cent drop in symptomatic COVID-19 infections among 600,000 people who received two doses of the Pfizers vaccine in the countrys biggest study to date.Health maintenance organization HMO Clalit, which covers more than half of all Israelis, said the same group was also 92 per cent less likely to develop severe illness from the virus.The study worked with a group of the same size, with matching medical histories, who had not received the vaccine. It compared 600,000 people who received both doses of the Pfizer vaccine against a same-sized group with m vaso stanley atching medical stanley mexico histories who had not received the vaccine yet.Israel has been rapidly vaccinating its population, and the new study underscores how effective the vaccine is, as the data nearly matches Pfizers Phase three clinical trial that showed the vaccine to be 95 per cent effective. It shows unequivocally that Pfizers coronavirus vaccine is extremely effective in th stanley mugs e real world a week after the second dose, just as it was found to be in the clinical study, said Ran Balicer, Clalits chief innovation officer.The Pfizer vaccine requires two doses.He added that the data indicates the Pfizer vaccine, which was developed in partnership with Germanys BioNTech, is even more effective two weeks or more after the second shot.Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science, who have been tabulating national data, said on Sunday that a sharp decline in hospitalisation and Vlth Coronavirus: Free testing sites for eligible groups on Thursday
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