Vaccine delivers 94% drop in symptomatic COVID-19 cases

“Israel’s largest healthcare provider...reported a 94% drop in symptomatic COVID-19 infections among 600,000 people who received two doses of the Pfizer’s vaccine in the country’s biggest study to date.

...HMO Clalit, which covers more than half of all Israelis, said the same group was also 92% less likely to develop severe illness from the virus.

The comparison was against a group of the same size, with matching medical histories, who had not received the vaccine.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-vaccine-idUSKBN2AE0Q2

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Lynn Wood @ 2021.02.15 5:28 AM
Another reason this vaccine is so special https://www.ideaspies.com/posts/genetic-coding-to-become-as-important-as-digital-coding

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