What the world can learn about immunity from Israel’s fast vaccine rollout
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What the world can learn about immunity from Israel’s fast vaccine rollout
Experts weigh in on the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine’s effects and how Israel got to be #1 in vaccinations per capita.
By Abigail Klein Leichman
The extraordinarily fast and organized vaccination campaign in Israel is unmatched per capita anywhere in the world.
By design, this fast rollout is providing Pfizer—and the rest of us—with the first critical real-world data on brand-new mRNA vaccines.
This type of vaccine instructs cells to make a “spike” protein that triggers the immune system to produce antibodies against the matching spike protein on the surface of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which causes COVID-19.