Since the Prime Minister’s announcement of the intention to provide data on patients and vaccinators to Pfizer, there has been a stir among practitioners in the field, as not even senior health officials have been able to provide clear details about the agreement. Today (Sunday), the entire agreement was uploaded to the Ministry of Health website, which transparently reveals the sections that deal with information passed to the company, and was published after the agreement of both parties. The data that Pfizer requires to be transmitted will be transmitted electronically in a method that protects the security and integrity of the data. The details of the agreement were published after the Movement for Quality of Government appealed to the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Health and the Privacy Protection Authority to demand transparency in the matter.
Netanyahu receives the delivery of the vaccines to Pfizer’s corona at Ben Gurion Airport
Under the agreement, the Ministry of Health and Pfizer will cooperate in analyzing the following data:
• Number of corona patients per week
• Number of patients per week
• The number of corona patients in a critical / critical condition on a weekly basis
• Number of corona patients required to use respirators
• Number of deaths weekly
• Number of symptomatic patients weekly
• Number of vaccines per week by age and other demographic subgroups.
• Number verified weekly by age groups and other demographic factors.
• Additional analyzes of subgroups and analysis of vaccine efficacy, in accordance with the agreement of the parties
• Direct medical costs saved as a result of the impact of the national immunization program following a reduction in hospitalization visits, hospitalizations, intensive care hospitalizations, etc.
The Ministry of Health will provide Pfizer with weekly data that includes the following information:
1. Epidemiological data, which include all the data from the previous section, together with accompanying documents that the two parties will provide to each other as needed.
2. If applicable, the Ministry of Health will provide an electronic “data dictionary” consisting of all the changing data.
2.2 Documentation of statistical programming algorithms used to generate the data sets for analysis, methodologies used to convert source data into output data (derivatives); And relevant statistics.
Any other documentation that is reasonably requested by one of the parties and mutually agreed upon by both parties.
At a press conference held by Netanyahu, he stated that there were several talks with the CEO of Pfizer, and as part of the agreement it was agreed that Israel would be a global model for the rapid vaccination of an entire country.
Advocate Ariel Barzilai, head of the Movement for the Quality of Government Movement: “The citizens’ vaccine is welcome, but it is necessary to maintain maximum transparency on the issue and even to increase public participation in order to ensure the success of the vaccination campaign. We congratulate the Ministry of Health for uploading the agreement to the site. We will study it and continue to be vigilant. ‘