Of the one million Israelites vaccinated against coronavirus so far, 250 were diagnosed with the virus days after they were given the chance.
According to Channel 13 News, the number emphasizes the need for people to continue to protect themselves against the virus, as the body takes time to develop the antibodies needed to fight it.
Studies of the Pfizer vaccine have shown that immunity only begins to occur 8-10 days after the first dose, and even then the immunity is about 50 percent. For this reason, a second dose is given 21 days after the first dose.
It is also unclear whether the vaccine prevents someone from spreading the virus.
Although the individual would not get sick as the immune system is now equipped to fight the virus, the nose of the individual can still emit infectious virus particles.
Of the million, less than twenty people reported allergic reactions to the vaccine, including swelling of the tongue.
Four people died in the hours after receiving the vaccine, but according to the Ministry of Health, not all were related to the vaccination.
Israel has reached the vaccination rate at the top of the world, with more than 10 percent of the population given the chance, a tribute to the country’s scientific expertise.
A dozen Israeli researchers are ranked among the top 50 in their disciplines, a new study from Stanford University showed, with another 333 researchers coming in at the top two percent of the world. https://t.co/1MyafLA9TB
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Muhammad Abd al-Wahhab Jabarin, the 66-year-old man celebrated by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the millionth Israeli to receive the vaccine, was identified on Sunday as having served 14 years in prison for manslaughter.
Netanyahu stands with Jabarin at a vaccination clinic in the Arab-Israeli city of Umm al-Fahm, a moment of ‘great excitement’.
“We’re breaking all the records. “We have brought millions of vaccines to the state of Israel,” he said. “We’re ahead of the world … with our excellent HMOs.”
Reports later said Netanyahu’s office was probably unaware of Jabarin’s past and he was randomly selected to be the vaccine’s millionth recipient of those waiting in the clinic.
Netanyahu was the first Israeli to receive a vaccine on live TV last Saturday night.
According to a graph published by the University of Oxford, Our World in Data, according to the number of vaccinations per capita, Israel remains by a large margin in the first place.