Albert Burle, CEO of pharmaceutical company Pfizer, was unable to travel to Israel due to lack of coronavirus vaccination. Reported by The Jerusalem Post.
He explained that he was given the first injection, but the deadline for re-vaccination has not yet come. He admitted that he had not been vaccinated before so that the vaccine would go to “the one who needs it more”.
Due to the current situation, Burle decided to postpone his planned visit to Israel for several days.
Earlier, Israel doubted the claimed effectiveness of the Pfizer vaccine. The coordinator of the national coronavirus program, Professor Nachman Ash, said that more than 12.4 thousand Israelis became infected with the coronavirus even after receiving the first dose of the vaccine. Among them, there are at least 69 infected who received the second injection.
Mass vaccination against COVID-19 in the country began on December 19. First, the drug is received by health workers and medical students. Among the first in line are also Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and heads of municipalities. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was the first in the country to be vaccinated against the coronavirus with the Pfizer vaccine.
On January 20, an Israeli doctor talked about complications from the Pfizer vaccination. According to Leonid Eidelman, facial paralysis after the coronavirus vaccine is rare; in most patients, such a complication after vaccination goes away rather quickly, but its cause is still not clear.