A study by Israel’s largest healthcare provider on Sunday found that after participants received two doses of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine, they saw a 94% drop in symptomatic COVID-19 infections, according to a report. Clalit, the health system that covers most Israelis, compared 600,000 people who received both doses of the Pfizer vaccine against a group of the same size who had matching medical histories and had not yet received the vaccine. "It shows unequivocally that Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine is extremely effective in the real world a week after the second dose, just as it was found to be in the clinical study," said Ran Balicer, Clalit’s chief innovation officer. Balicer added that the data shows the Pfizer vaccine, developed in partnership with Germany’s BioNTech, was even more effective "two weeks or more after the second shot," the news organization reported. Israel has been conducting a rapid vaccine rollout and leads all countries with roughly 70.5 vaccine doses per 100 people, according to Bloomberg's COVID-19 Vaccine Tracker.

Source: Fox News February 15, 2021 10:48 UTC