Israel: Pfizer vaccine prevents 98.9 percent of COVID-19 deaths | TheHill – The Hill

The vaccine produced by Pfizer and BioNTech is 98.8 percent effective at preventing deaths or hospitalizations due to COVID-19, the head of Israel’s health ministry said.
The Times of Israel reported that the director-general of Israel’s health ministry, Chezy Levy, said in a statement that data collected by his agency had also found the vaccine to be 99.2 percent effective at preventing serious cases of the disease. Data analyzed by the agency only included patients who received both doses of Pfizer’s…