What Israel Can Teach Us
Prognosis: Misconception
Bloomberg
4.1 • 838 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Israel has had one of the world’s most successful vaccination efforts yet. Now a new study from the country shows the Pfizer vaccine was overwhelmingly effective against the virus. Public-health experts say the Israeli study shows that immunizations could end the pandemic. Naomi Kresge reports on what makes the Israeli study so significant, and why it might point to an eventual way out of the pandemic.
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| 0:33.9 | Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day 362 since coronavirus was declared a global pandemic. |
| 0:43.9 | Today's main story, Israel has been a model for how to quickly vaccinate millions of people. |
| 0:50.8 | Now the country has come out with one of the best studies yet on the effectiveness of the vaccine. |
| 0:57.1 | And the news is very good. |
| 1:00.7 | But first, here's what happened in virus news today. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is finally letting people know what they can and can't do after they've been vaccinated. |
| 1:27.8 | According to new CDC guidelines, |
| 1:30.1 | inoculated people can visit indoors without masks, |
| 1:33.5 | but must still wear them in public |
| 1:35.8 | and avoid large gatherings around unfvaccinated or vulnerable people. |
| 1:41.9 | Germany will drastically speed up its vaccination campaign to as many as 10 million weekly |
| 1:47.8 | inoculations by late March. The country's finance minister said on German television that in April, |
| 1:54.9 | May, and June, vaccination centers and doctors will have to handle millions of doses every week. |
| 2:02.6 | Germany has administered a total of 7.33 million doses since inoculation started 10 weeks ago, |
| 2:11.6 | according to Bloomberg's vaccine tracker. |
| 2:14.6 | Finally, India's COVID-19 vaccination drive has jumped nearly fourfold after a sluggish start. |
| 2:22.5 | The country's program, one of the world's biggest, sped up after it expanded eligibility |
| 2:28.1 | and got a crucial public endorsement from the inoculation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. |
| 2:35.0 | Almost 21 million shots have been administered in India so far, |
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