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Sunday, April 11 2021 1:57pm - 2:57pm
Real-world COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness and the Mass Vaccination Experience in Israel
[][] When: Thursday, May 6, 2021 - 1:00pm Room: This seminar will be webcast on Zoom Lecturer(s): Ben Reis, Director of the Predictive Medicine Group in the Computational Health Informatics Program (CHIP) at Boston Children’s Hospital and a member of the faculty at Harvard Medical School. [] Dr. Ben Reis will give an overview of and update on the recent New England Journal of Medicine paper he co-authored, providing the first real-world study of effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. It was the largest study yet to quantify the impact of the vaccine outside the confines of a clinical trial. The study used innovative epidemiological methods to analyze vaccine effectiveness for preventing symptomatic diseases, severe illness and death. Dr. Reis will discuss his study and the lessons learned from the nation-wide mass vaccination experience in Israel. [read more]
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