Israel and the United States researchers have shown that Pfizer vaccination has reduced the risk in adolescents to be infected with a coronavirus infection by 90 percent. Article specialists Published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Scientists from the Club Research Institute together with American colleagues analyzed the data on health more than 94,000 Israeli adolescents aged 12 to 18, who received two doses of vaccine from June 8 to September 14, 2021. During this period, researchers note, 95 percent of the infections were associated with Delta-option to coronavirus. The control group included the same number of unvaccinated adolescents.
It turned out that completely vaccinated adolescents and. The risk of infection vaccination reduced by 90 percent. When obtaining only the first dose of the vaccine, these indicators were 57 and 59 percent, respectively, 14-20 days after administration, and 82 and 66 percent in 21-27 days. Assess the effectiveness of protection against heavy COVID-19, hospitalization and death researchers did not allow the lack of data – similar outcomes among adolescents were very rare.