Protection by a Fourth Dose of BNT162b2 against Omicron in Israel

Yinon M Bar‐On; Yair Goldberg; Micha Mandel; Omri Bodenheimer; Ofra Amir; Laurence Freedman; Sharon Alroy-Preis; Nachman Ash; Amit Huppert; Ron Milo

doi:10.1056/NEJMoa2201570

Protection by a Fourth Dose of BNT162b2 against Omicron in Israel

Yinon M Bar‐On
, Yair Goldberg
, Micha Mandel
, Omri Bodenheimer
, Ofra Amir
, Laurence Freedman
, Sharon Alroy-Preis
, Nachman Ash
, Amit Huppert
, Ron Milo

Weizmann Institute of Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Tel Aviv University

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The spread of the omicron variant produced an increase in Covid-19 in Israel in late 2021, and a second boost of BNT162b2 vaccine was authorized in early January 2022. This article reports the efficacy of the fourth dose among Israeli citizens 60 years of age or older. Rates of severe illness were reduced by a factor of 3.5 in the fourth week after the second boost.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1712-1720
Number of pages	9
Journal	New England Journal of Medicine
Volume	386
Issue number	18
Early online date	5 May 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa2201570
State	Published - 5 May 2022

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