Nearly 60% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Israel fully vaccinated, data shows

[Shiloh]

Source: https://www.beckershospitalreview.c...s-in-israel-fully-vaccinated-study-finds.html


Nearly 60% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Israel fully vaccinated, data shows
Erica Carbajal - 10 hours ago

Of 514 patients in Israel hospitalized with COVID-19 as of Aug. 15, 59 percent were fully vaccinated, according to an Aug. 16 article from Science that cited national data tracked by Israel's largest health management organization. The figures suggest breakthrough infections may be more common than the term implies, the report suggests.

Most of the vaccinated patients who were hospitalized, about 87 percent, were at least 60 years old.

"This is a very clear warning sign for the rest of the world," said Ran Balicer, CIO at Clalit Health Services, Israel's largest health maintenance organization. "If it can happen here, it can probably happen anywhere," he told Science...

 

[gsgs]

this is misleading.
You must consider the total proportion vaccinated, the vaccine effectiveness.
See e.g. this twitter thread :
https://twitter.com/jsm2334/status/1428552338000777216
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[Pathfinder]

From the link posted by Shiloh:

"according to an Aug. 16 article from Science"


A grim warning from Israel: Vaccination blunts, but does not defeat Delta


By Meredith WadmanAug. 16, 2021 , 6:55 PM

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Now, the effects of waning immunity may be beginning to show in Israelis vaccinated in early winter; a preprint published last month by physician Tal Patalon and colleagues at KSM, the research arm of MHS, found that protection from COVID-19 infection during June and July dropped in proportion to the length of time since an individual was vaccinated. People vaccinated in January had a 2.26 times greater risk for a breakthrough infection than those vaccinated in April. (Potential confounders include the fact that the very oldest Israelis, with the weakest immune systems, were vaccinated first.)
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https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021...t-defeat-delta



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