{"id":393287,"date":"2021-05-13T14:48:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T17:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=393287"},"modified":"2021-05-13T14:48:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T17:48:44","slug":"declining-infections-and-hospitalizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/declining-infections-and-hospitalizations\/","title":{"rendered":"Declining infections and hospitalizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel is already benefitting from the effects of vaccination against COVID-19. According to data from the country\u2019s Ministry of Health, between mid-January and the beginning of February there was a 41% drop in the number of confirmed cases in people aged 60 or over and a 31% drop in hospitalizations. About 90% of the population in this age group has already received the first of two doses of the vaccine produced by American pharmaceutical company Pfizer. Among individuals aged 59 or younger\u2014of whom just over 30% have been immunized\u2014the fall was 12% for confirmed cases and 5% for the number of hospitalizations in the same period. \u201cWhat we see here are early and very encouraging signs that the vaccine is working,\u201d Florian Krammer, a virologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, USA, told the journal <em>Nature.<\/em> However, experts say that Israel\u2019s success is also due to other factors. On January 8, the government imposed a new lockdown in response to the rising number of cases, which according to experts, may have contributed to the results of the immunization campaign.<\/p>\n<picture data-tablet=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/012-015_Notas_301-0-desktop.png\" data-tablet_size=\"670x414\" alt=\"\">\n    <source srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/012-015_Notas_301-0-desktop.png\" media=\"(min-width: 1920px)\" \/>\n    <source srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/012-015_Notas_301-0-desktop.png\" media=\"(min-width: 1140px)\" \/>\n    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-img\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/012-015_Notas_301-0-mobile.png\" \/>\n  <\/picture>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel is already benefitting from the effects of vaccination against COVID-19","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":393511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[260,256],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-393287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notes","tag-public-health","tag-public-policies","keywords-coronavirus-en","keywords-covid-19-en","keywords-sars-cov-2-en","keywords-vaccine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393287"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394006,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393287\/revisions\/394006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393287"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=393287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}