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Israel Data "Preliminary Signal" Delta Variant Can Bypass Vaccine, Top Israeli Expert Says

@COVID19Up: Rising COVID-19 cases in Israel, where most residents are inoculated with Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine, offer "a preliminary signal" the vaccine may be less effective in preventing mild illness from the Delta variant, a top expert said Monday.

But Ran Balicer, chairman of Israel's national expert panel on COVID-19, stressed it was "too early to precisely assess vaccine effectiveness against the variant" first identified in India in April that is surging across the globe.

Israel's vaccine rollout that began in December was one of the world's fastest, making it a closely-watched case study on whether mass inoculation offers a path out of the pandemic.

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