Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine highly effective against Delta variant, company says

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Pfizer officials in Israel say the company’s COVID-19 vaccine is highly effective against the Delta variant, which is becoming the globally dominant strain of the virus

FILE PHOTO: A vial and syringe are seen in front of a displayed Pfizer logo in this illustration taken January 11, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File PhotoThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is highly effective against the Delta variant of COVID-19, a Pfizer official in Israel said on Thursday.

“The data we have today, accumulating from research we are conducting at the lab and including data from those places where the Indian variant, Delta, has replaced the British variant as the common variant, point to our vaccine being very effective, around 90%, in preventing the coronavirus disease, COVID-19,” Alon Rappaport, Pfizer’s medical director in Israel, told local broadcaster Army Radio.

“We are collecting the data now. We are only now seeing the first cases of the Delta variant in Israel - about 200 of those - so we will know more soon,” she told reporters on Wednesday. In Israel, more than half the 9.3 million population has received both Pfizer shots and a steep drop in cases has prompted most economic restrictions to be lifted.

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Umhmmm...that's why everyone in Israel with the 2nd shot of pfizer got COVID. Because DELTA VARIANT. Stop lying to people!

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