{"id":51116,"date":"2021-03-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/12\/pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-97-percent-effective-against-symptomatic-disease\/"},"modified":"2021-03-16T15:10:51","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T15:10:51","slug":"pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-97-percent-effective-against-symptomatic-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/12\/pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-97-percent-effective-against-symptomatic-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine 97 Percent Effective Against Symptomatic Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>\n<p>Analysis of data from Israel&#8217;s vaccination campaign also showed vaccine to be 94 percent effective against asymptomatic disease<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>FRIDAY, March 12, 2021 (HealthDay News) &#8212; The Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine is 97 percent effective in preventing symptomatic disease in actual use, which is better than previously thought.<\/p>\n<p>The analysis of data gathered from Jan. 17 to March 6 from Israel&#8217;s vaccination campaign also showed that the vaccine is 94 percent effective against asymptomatic disease, <em>CBS News<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are extremely encouraged that the real-world effectiveness data coming from Israel are confirming the high efficacy demonstrated in our phase 3 clinical trial and showing the significant impact of the vaccine in preventing severe disease and deaths due to COVID-19,&#8221; said Luis Jodar, Ph.D., senior vice president and chief medical officer of Pfizer Vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>A previous real-world study revealed that the vaccine was 94 percent effective against symptomatic disease and 92 percent effective against asymptomatic disease, <em>CBS News<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/pfizer-vaccine-covid-97-effective-symptomatic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>CBS News<\/em> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis of data from Israel&#8217;s vaccination campaign also showed vaccine to be 94 percent effective against asymptomatic disease<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":51245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-51116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}