Israel Finds Pfizer Jab Only 39% Effective At Stopping Delta Variant

Investor Village ^ | 07/23/2021 | Tyler Durden

[SeekAndFind]

Over the past month, Israel, the world's most heavily vaccinated country (with leading mRNA jabs, no less) has seen the number of positive COVID tests has risen by more than 30x as the number of active infections in the country has surpassed 10K.

Meanwhile, the Israeli Health Ministry, which has previously estimated the true efficacy of the Pfizer jab against the delta variant at only 64% (while still more than 90% effective at preventing serious illness and death), just released new data purporting to show that while the Pfizer jab is still 88% effective at preventing serious illness, it's only 39% effective at preventing infection with delta.

Alex Berenson, a former NYT journalist who has often reported on scientific findings that don't support the official narrative on masks and vaccines, shared the findings in a tweet, and speculated that the true efficacy in offering protection against the Delta variant might be even lower - perhaps as low as 30%.

Israel now says the Pfizer vaccine is down to only 40% protection against #Covid infection in the last month.

That’s the good news.

The bad news: the real number is probably below 30% at this point since the 40% number includes two weeks when effectiveness was notably higher. pic.twitter.com/XD3iFRZPPj — Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) July 23, 2021

Even Bloomberg acknowledged that the Israeli data "could be skewed because of different ways of testing vaccinated groups of people versus those who hadn't been innoculated, according to the report.

"The heavily skewed exposure patterns in the recent outbreak in Israel, which are limited to specific population sectors and localities," means the analysis may not be able to take all factors into account, said Ran Balicer, chairman of Israel’s national expert advisory team on Covid-19 response. "We are trying to complement this research approach with additional ones, taking additional personal characteristics into account. But this takes time and larger case numbers."

BBG also acknowledged that the data "are likely to fuel debate over whether booster shots should be given to people who've already been vaccinated - something Pfizer has said it plans to request..."

But Dr. Anthony Fauci, the FDA and the CDC have all said that there's no evidence yet that a third "booster" shot would be necessary. Israel has already ordered a round of booster shots that it plans to start distributing to the most vulnerable patients Aug. 1.

The Israeli numbers are much lower than other recent studies, including one study recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which found that two doses offers 88% protection against the Delta variant causing symptomatic disease, while offering 94% protection against the alpha variant.

But never mind all that: As President Biden said earlier this week, "if you are vaccinated, you are safe." Unless you're not.

[Tipllub]

What’s interesting is Johnson & Johnson took some licks for being rated “less effective” than Pfizer and Moderna. But the key point was J&J was continuing to test and conduct trials as the variants were circulating. Pfizer and Moderna had already left the field at that point.

[RushingWater]

If it’s just the flu why do you care if the vaccines don’t work?

Some scientists said the vaccines would make it worse. Are we seeing the beginning of that? A corona variant can roam around in a vaccinated person, who may have had their more important T cell immunity compromised. So far, the claim is that Delta will be much less bad for you if you've had the vaccine and most hospitalizations are the non-vaxxed.

Is that true and will that stat be sustained?

[PMAS]

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[MNDude]

“Israel, the world’s most heavily vaccinated country”

The Palestinians may finally get their way.

[AppyPappy]

You need 5 jabs, a mask, gloves, panties on your head and you have to eat this bug.

[DouglasKC]

QUIT calling it a “jab”. They only stopped calling it a “shot” because they wanted to make an experimental “vaccine” sound less scary.

[Empire_of_Liberty]

The assault on therapeutics at the outset of this should have been a massive clue that we are being had, and that those in power do not want to save lives.

We are seeing, now, that work on the virus, under Fauci’s direction predates Trump. The “vaccine” probably does, too.

The numbers we are seeing are BS, from people we should not trust, given the above.

I particularly admire how all of these percentages and statistics are computed and presented in a changing landscape. The virus is changing (possibly naturally) as it now clearly moves seasonally through the world. The population is changing through succumbing to it, developing immunity to it and changing behavior. Vaccination is introduced into a population in the process of both of these. These numbers are all going to change, and they’ll be whatever anyone wants them to be.

[shanover]

COVID wheel keeps on turning....