Thread by @jsm2334

Just peeked at Israeli MOH 11/9 data on current infection/serious infection rates split out by unvaccinated, boosted, & vax/not boosted.

We see boosted strongly protected vs. infection, and vaccinated/boosted show evidence of waning effectiveness, but still 50-70% VE_infection

For serious disease, again boosted are strongly protected. But even vaccinated/not boosted have much lower severe disease rates than unvaccinated.

Remember, these are CURRENTLY active cases, so only a snapshot, but show (1) strong protection of boosters and (2) Even unboosted vaccinated subpopulation seem to have substantial protection vs. severe disease, at all age groups.

Israeli MOH 11/9 data on current infection/serious infection rates split out by unvaccinated, boosted, & vax/not boosted.

We see boosted strongly protected vs. infection, and vaccinated/boosted show evidence of waning effectiveness, but still 50-70% VE_infection
(corrected typo)

Sorry for the column header typo -- and also here I add the raw counts so you can see the sample sizes in current infections/serious infections. Wish I could edit the original tweet but this will have to do :)

The Hebrew I translated as "boosted" is literally translated as "vaccinated" and what I translated as "vaccinated, not boosted" is literally translated "vaccinated with invalidity"

Someone else in this thread suggested their definitions of "vaccinated" actually includes boosted plus vaccinated in past 6 months but not boosted.

And "vaccinated with invalidity" means vaccinated >6m ago but not yet boosted.

f this is the case then the 12-15yr might not be boosted, but just recently vaccinated with 2 doses (and that might be way no infections listed for "vaccinated with invalidity" since no 12-15yr was vaccinated >6m ago).

This also makes the results much more impressive.

This would mean that what I have labelled as "vaccinated not boosted" is in fact "vaccinated >6m ago not boosted"

And what I label "boosted" might be "Boosted or vaccinated <6m ago"