T. Belman. These results justify vaccination or do they. But two issues come to mind. 1. What is the long term affect, if any. 2. Do these results justify penalizing people who refuse to be vaccinated?
Underlying all this is the question of whether the world has been conned as to the severity of the pandemic and whether the reality justified the lockdown, masks etc. Was it all to enable the fraud in the 2020 elections?
The Pfizer BioNTech coronavirus vaccine produces as good results in the “real world” as have been previously documented in randomised trials.
A case control study, which has been peer reviewed and published in the New England Journal of Medicine, compared 596?618 people who were newly vaccinated in Israel and matched them to unvaccinated controls.1
Two doses of the mRNA vaccine reduced symptomatic cases by 94%, hospitalisation by 87%, and severe covid-19 by 92%, according to the data from the Clalit Institute for Research which is Israel’s biggest healthcare provider.
Researchers recorded the outcomes at three periods: days 14 to 20 after the first dose of vaccine, days 21 through 27 after the first dose, and day 7 after the second dose. In Israel, the second dose of vaccine is given on day 21 in line with the trials and the manufacturer’s recommendation. The UK is leaving a 12 week gap between doses.
During a mean follow-up of 15 days, 10?561 infections were documented of which 5996 were symptomatic covid-19 illness, 369 required hospitalisation, 229 were severe cases, and 41 resulted in death.
After one dose, during days 14 to 20, the vaccine effectiveness was 57% for symptomatic covid-19, 74% for hospitalisation, and 62% for severe disease. The estimated effectiveness in preventing death from covid-19 was 72% in the two to three weeks after the first dose. There was insufficient data to produce an estimate on the reduction in mortality in those who received two doses.
The study took place from 20 December 2020, when Israel’s national vaccination drive was launched, to 1 February 2021. It coincided with Israel’s third and largest wave of coronavirus infection and illness.
The study also suggests the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine is effective against the B.1.1.7 variant which was first identified in the UK. During the study period, an increasing share of SARS-CoV-2 isolates in Israel—up to 80%—were of this variant. The data, however, provide no information about the effectiveness of the vaccine against the South African variant, B.1.351, as this was estimated to be rare in Israel at the time of the study.
The study authors add that the vaccine effectiveness was similar for adults 70 years of age or older and for younger age groups. However, the study was not designed to systematically assess viral transmission or asymptomatic infections. As Israel does not systematically test asymptomatic people, some asymptomatic cases will have been missed.
Peter English, consultant in communicable disease control and past chair of the BMA’s Public Health Medicine Committee, said, “This is more great news, confirming that the vaccine is around 90% effective at preventing documented infection of any degree of severity from seven days after the second dose. This is consistent with the findings of the phase III trials carried out before the vaccine was marketed.”
He added, “Despite it having been published quickly, the quality of the paper is of the highest. It is rigorous and thorough, with appropriate statistical analyses.”
Ran Balicer, senior author of the study and director of the Clalit Research Institute, said, “These results show convincingly that this vaccine is highly effective against symptomatic covid-19, one week after the second dose. These results are similar to those reported in the previously published clinical trial, despite the challenges inherent in a mass vaccination setting.”
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Among my close relatives and friends, more than 20 people got Covid and recovered, no one died. At the same time, another 79 yo relative got his legs paralyzed after the first “vaccination”. If the virus is treatable, why to get this unproven and potentially harmful “vaccine”? It’s so easy to find the truth. Who is interested in promoting these “vaccines”? Same people who were thrown out of India, the Philippines, Peru, Africa for deaths, infertility, and paralysis caused by their vaccines. Listen to Bill Gates and his puppet Fauci. These people do not hide anything. Gates is talking about how much profit he will get from these vaccines. “Plandemic” is a part of the globalist’s plan to establish the NWO. Propaganda is working very well. People are rushing to get the shots, they got used to wearing masks, kids are wearing masks all the time…? Remember Hitler’s Germany? Orwellian “1984”?
@ peloni1986:
I agree with you a 100%.
Great post.
I only hope that neither Ms. Silver nor her children (who will, probably, soon be vaccinated themselves) do not experience any long-term problems such as infertility which, if it does occur, will surely please Mr. Gates immensely.
“Effectiveness” of a vaccine and its long-term safety are two completely different and unrelated issues.
What if it causes long-term damage to the immune system, reproductive system (possibly in subsequent generations), etc.?
This has never been tested on animals.
They went directly to the Dr. Mengele-type testing on tens of millions of humans under the pretext of this COVID virus being “the plague” which it wasn’t.
Besides, where will Israel, in particular, who is paying for each dose more than any other country get the endless supply of money for more and more vaccines?
Israel is already heavily in debt, and it has no ability to print the world currency like the US does?
More “loan guarantees” (like before OSLO) in exchange for accepting the Two-State Final Solution at the Israel-“Palestine” conference which is being planned (including by the US) for this summer?
@ Reader:
They have not lost their minds. They have lost their ethics. Anyone ever hear of the edict “do no harm”. It wasn’t a suggestion. It wasn’t an opinion. It was how medical community practiced medicne. It was an ethical bar that we were to never cross.
Now throw in a couple billion dollars and your are on the slow track towards developing the vaccines that are to bend that old rule of conscience. Now throw in a couple trillion dollars and nothing is so insurmountable that it cannot be overcome. Now make the whole project renewable bi-annually. The possible consequences of the re-administered vaccines over time is not eve a topic of conversation. These are EXPERIMENTAL VACCINES!!!
These companies are raking in profits that dwarf the economies of most countries. Big Pharma has become Pharma the Great. Bill Gates stated not too long ago that the idea of risking billions on possible failing vaccines was not a concern when you were talking about guaranteed contracts of trillions. Bill Gates, who is a doctor of mad science and advocates depopulation protocols thru the use of vaccines…Yep that Bill Gates – the former unethical software giant who has morphed into a self-appointed, no-ethics expert on all things medical having received a degree from…that’s right, nowhere. Pharma the Great allied themselves with the China Class and their Corrupted Political elitist alies to overthrow the government of the United States and is now moving onto continue their power grab.
People are dying, have died, have been murdered all to promote this new mind trance for the masses that all will be well if we get the shot. And even if it isn’t, well, what was it Ms. Silver said in the article posted by Sebastien Zorn..Oh, yes,
The still happy subjects in the lab experiment gone wrong just loves her status as the happy lab rat. So, I suppose if she had, instead, died yesterday, one could deduce that she would be content that she the vaccine had prevented her from dying the day before.
The cost of being vaccinated…Priceless.
@ Bear Klein:
Some of the Studies of the Vaccine or the results of the studies can be read at:
A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine [1] offers an early answer for the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. The Pfizer product is an mRNA vaccine that was found in a large clinical trial to be up to 95 percent effective in preventing COVID-19, leading to its Emergency Use Authorization last December.
https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2021/03/09/israeli-study-offers-first-real-world-glimpse-of-covid-19-vaccines-in-action/
Also for those interested in learning how the vaccines have proven effective can read: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2101765
@ Adam Dalgliesh:Israel has done huge studies on the Pfzier vaccine it is effective and safe!
@ Bear Klein: Yes, the vaccine is reducing the death rate and the number of people seriously ill from COVID19. But these vaccines was not thoroughly tested by immunologists who do not work for the company producing them, and the findings of even these independent researchers peer-reviewed and published in a respected medical journal. All previous vaccines, for all viruses, were required to go through this rigorous testing process before they were authorized for administration to the public.But in the unique case of COVID19 , the WHO, the CDC and all world governments waved all of these safety guarantees on the grounds that COVID19 had created an unprecedented world health crisis. The claims of the companies producing the vaccines, based solely on their internal tests, were accepted as adequate proof that the vaccines were safe. As a result, we have no way of knowing what the long-term, or even the short-term health risks for those receiving the vaccine are. Governments, including the Israeli government, have not released enough data for us to determine whether or not these vaccines are safe.
Pfizer says shot safe, 91% effective after 6 months; will seek full FDA okay
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-april-1-2021/
Vaccine is certainly helping tremendously as shown by less people catching the virus, less people dying and less sick people. Covid wards now closing in Israeli Hospitals.
@ Sebastien Zorn:
Have they lost their minds entirely?!
For the flu,you need booster shots every year. Sometimes they need to develop a whole new vaccine when a new strain appears. And every year, there are some resistant strains for whatever vaccine they give you. Getting the flu is no guarantee that you won’t get it again.
Why shouldn’t we assume that COVID19 won’t follow the same pattern, and be with us forever, just as influenza has been with us forever?
And remember–we still don’t know how many people die or develop permanent disabilities as a result of the vaccination process. We do know that as many as 16 percent of those vaccinated have developed severe symptoms of illness, such as a swelling of the lymph nodes, within a few
days of being vaccinated. We also know that some people who got bad reactions to the vaccines have died. We don’t know how many, because no one in government agencies is counting vaccine-related deaths. One private estimate, reported earlier by an author published in Israpundit, claimed that there have been thousands of vaccine-related deaths
@ clive:
Here are the reported casualty figures, as of today (31 March 2021):
“At least 1,138 new coronavirus deaths and 68,162 new cases were reported in the United States on March 31.”
— https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html
That’s a survival rate of 98.33% for the US population as a whole — with and without vaccines, with and without masks, etc. The survival rate for influenza is 98.48% — again, counting vaccinated and unvaccinated, etc. people
— https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/flu.htm
For the average US citizen, then, getting vaccinated is about as necessary or unneccesary as getting vaccinated for the ordinary flu. Add to this, however, that flu vaccines have been FDA-approved, whereas the current COVID-19 vaccines are still experimental, and approved on an emergency basis only.
None of the above gives me an incentive to be vaccinated; in fact, it seems to carry an unknown risk of dangerous, long-term outcomes. I say this, being in a high-risk category. If I am not forced to be vaccinated by our high-handed, constitutionally non-observant government, I simply plan to:
1. Use common sense
2, Avoid close contact and crowded, indoor places
3. Keep my body fortified, with Vitamins D-3 and C, and Zinc.
4. Try to glorify God, with my living and dying, regardless of COVID-19
The survival rate went from 99.74% to what… maybe 99.84