Vaccine efficacy
No lockdown with 73% of adults vaccinated, says Greek Health Minister
He said that any new measures would only concern the unvaccinated
Covid-19: Vaccine Works as Good in 'Real world' as in Trial in Israel
More data from Israel's vaccination programme is suggesting the Pfizer vaccine prevents 94% of symptomatic infections.
This indicates the vaccine is performing just as well in a larger population as it did in the clinical trials.
It is proving highly effective at preventing illness and severe disease among all age groups, according to public health doctor Prof Hagai Levine.
Coronavirus/Health Ministry: What 95% vaccine effectiveness means - 20 times lower risk to develop symptomatic COVID-19
The Health Ministry explained on Monday that a 95% effectiveness of a vaccine against the new coronavirus means that, compared to an unvaccinated person, an immunized person has a 20 times lower risk of developing symptomatic COVID-19.
AstraZeneca, Oxford say virus vaccine shows 70% efficacy
British drugs group AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford on Nov. 23 said their jointly-developed vaccine against COVID-19 has shown "an average efficacy of 70 percent" in trials.
Human Trials of 'Global HIV Vaccine' Begin
Human testing of a new experimental HIV vaccine has been launched in southern Africa, the first time in more than a decade that two big HIV vaccine efficacy trials are being carried out concurrently.
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