Maccabi’s vaccine data for Maccabi proves – the vaccine works: Less than 0.06% of recipients of the second vaccine dose have been diagnosed with corona and the high efficacy of the vaccine is maintained. Data from the Information and Digital Health Division at Maccabi Health Services show that as of the last day, only 254 people have been infected in Corona out of about 416,900 vaccinated who have passed more than a week since receiving the second vaccine. Maccabi reports that from an examination conducted among all those infected, they suffer from only mild symptoms when only four of them were hospitalized, and they too are in a mild condition.
Simultaneously with data on those infected among the vaccinated, a test was conducted among a control group the size of about 778,000 Maccabi members, from a diverse profile, who have not yet been vaccinated against Corona and have not been infected with the virus in the past. Among this group, 12,944 active verified patients were found during the same test period. A comparison of the data between the groups and the calculation of the information shows that at this stage the effectiveness of the vaccine in Israel is 91% after seven days or more from the completion of the second dose.
A segmentation of the infected after the vaccine shows that after the seventh day of receiving the second dose, there is a drop in the number of infected, depending on the results of the Pfizer trial. On the seventh day for receiving the second dose 76 vaccinated were infected, on the eighth day 44 vaccinated were infected and on the ninth day only 24 vaccinated were infected. From the 22nd day of receiving the second dose until the 24th day – the end of the current test period, 0 infections were recorded among all members of the test group.
As of last day, only 254 people had been infected in the corona out of about 416,900 vaccinated who had passed more than a week since receiving the second vaccine. Maccabi reports that from an examination conducted among all those infected, they suffer from only mild symptoms when only four of them were hospitalized, and they are also in a mild condition.
These numbers are similar to Maccabi’s data from last Thursday, when it emerged that only 66 people were infected in Corona out of about 248,000 vaccinated who had passed more than a week since receiving the second vaccine dose. Maccabi also reported at the time that of the 66 infected, most of them are over the age of 55, and half of them suffer from background diseases. All experienced only mild illness with symptoms of headache, cough, weakness or fatigue. None of them were hospitalized and suffered from a fever over 38.5 degrees. Most patients were examined due to exposure to a verified patient.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health published this morning (Thursday) the updated morbidity data in Corona, which show that 7,385 Israelis were diagnosed yesterday as positive for Corona. A total of 83,000 tests were solved and the positive rate was 8.9% – the lowest figure in almost two weeks. Since the beginning of the week, 180 corona patients have died in Israel. Meanwhile, today at 2:00 PM, the government is expected to convene for a discussion on extending the closure.
Yesterday, 166 new patients were hospitalized in critical condition. From Sunday to Wednesday, 620 new patients were hospitalized in critical condition, compared to 652 in the first four days of last week. 1,768 corona patients are hospitalized in hospitals across the country, 1,103 of them in critical condition. 315 patients are connected to respirators. 4,947 Corona patients have died since the outbreak, 34 of them yesterday. Meanwhile, close to 3.3 million Israelis received the first vaccine and about 1.9 million the second.
That is, 20.69% of Israelis were vaccinated in two doses. The rate of vaccinators in the second dose among those aged 90 and over is 78.1%, among Israelis in their 80s the rate of vaccinators in the second dose is 76.8%, the rate of vaccinators aged 70 to 79 is the highest and 83.8% of this age group have already received the second shot. 65.3% aged 60 to 69.
As of this morning Nesher and Tira are the only green cities. Among the other green localities: Kfar Kama, Bat Hefer, Omer, Fureidis, Arara in the Negev, Lehavim, Meitar, Kfar Ha’oranim, Kalenswa, restaurant, Hispin, Hura, Segev Shalom, Shimshit, Jisr a-Zarqa, Sheikh Danon, Mashhad And Givat Brenner. The yellow cities are: Rahat, Raanana, Givatayim, Herzliya, Afula, Kiryat Bialik, Kiryat Ono, Yokneam Illit, Nahariya, Ramat Hasharon, Kfar Saba, Kiryat Motzkin, Haifa, Kiryat Yam and Shefar’am.