Vaccines For Data: Israel s Pfizer Deal Drives Quick Rollout â And Privacy Worries
at 3:01 am NPR
How has tiny Israel beat out bigger countries on COVID-19 vaccinations, securing a steady stream of vials and inoculating a larger share of its citizenry than any other nation?
Israel paid a premium, locked in an early supply of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines and struck a unique deal: vaccines for data.
The nation of some 9 million promised Pfizer a swift vaccine rollout, along with data from Israel s centralized trove of medical statistics to study whether herd immunity is achieved after reaching a certain percentage of vaccination coverage in Israel, according to their agreement.