ca 600,000 vaccinated with BNT-Pfizer vaccine in Israel, matched on demographic/clinical characteristics of 600,000 unvaccinated (median age 45) showed results similar to the phase 3 trial... 1/n nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
...Similar pattern, for infection, symptomatic Covid-19, hospitalization, severe disease, death: 10,561 people infected, 57% of them developed symptoms; 369 in hospital, 229 severe Covid-19, 41 deaths...2/n
...7 days after 2nd dose: 92% efficacy against infection (CI: 88 to 95) - that's a strong result. Hospitalization: 87% (CI: 55 to 100) - wide confidence intervals, so not so certain. Remember, it's a group on the young side...3/n
...The group is on the young side, because so many older people were vaccinated so fast, it was harder to get a matched group of unvaccinated older people in that time...4/n
...Vaccine efficacy was similarly high in older people, including over 70. The study doesn't analyze for variants, but at that time, up to 80% of infections in Israel were B.1.1.7 ("UK" variant), & B.1.351 "SA" variant was rare. /5

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Away we go. J&J ENSEMBLE trial evaluation has landed - 8am again - thanks, FDA! ....1/n
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It's another ENSEMBLE-watch day! The FDA meets on 26th to discuss the evaluation of the J&J single-shot vaccine - 3rd vaccine for FDA - & they aim to publish report 2 days ahead, which they achieved for the last 2. So 🤞 all will be revealed in a few hours ... 1/n
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Records on this vaccine: zotero.org/groups/2528572… ...2/n
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This Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine study from a preprint a couple of weeks ago is now published in the Lancet. At first look, there are some additions... 1/n thelancet.com/journals/lance…
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EMA (Euro drug regulator) assessment report for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is online. This one's 181 pages. Most of it's based on the original November data (as in the Lancet publication) but some includes is Ded 7 data (as in recent preprint): ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/h… ...1/n
...They had a major objection to the US manufacturing plant (it's also manufactured in the UK & Belgium - EMA is not assessing Covishield, the Indian version, at all). However, their concerns were resolved. Sounds like it was missing certification...2/n
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