“Data from Israel shows that the Pfizer vaccine blocks 94% of asymptomatic COVID-19 infections and 97% of symptomatic infections.”
That doesn’t even make any sense. What is that supposed to mean?
How can anyone know exactly how many “infections” these experimental substances “block?” And what does it mean to “block” an infection? Does that mean that an exposed person doesn’t develop the disease? If they don’t get the disease, how do you know they were exposed? (In real life; not the lab.)
These arguments for the “effectiveness” of the experimental substances are gibberish. If it were true, one should be able to make a case for that with a few simple statements.
Given a particular cohort, within a particular region, one can determine how many people should become infected (the control group). You then compare that to the vaccinated group and see what the differential is. Israel has extensive data on their population. They agreed to make aggregated COVID-19 and Pfizer data public as part of their deal with Pfizer (along with paying more per dose) to jump the line for vaccine doses.
The public data from Israel has been invaluable for seeing how a mass vaccination campaign impacts the pandemic. In this case, the pandemic has cratered. 14 new cases per day on average now and 1 COVID death. In the entire country of over 9 million people. And all their neighbors are seeing COVID cases and deaths either hold steady or rise. In Israel, COVID-19 is over.