{"id":38058,"date":"2021-12-14T10:03:03","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T10:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/?p=38058"},"modified":"2021-12-14T10:03:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T10:03:03","slug":"pfizer-vaccine-protecting-against-hospitalisation-during-omicron-wave-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/pfizer-vaccine-protecting-against-hospitalisation-during-omicron-wave-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Pfizer vaccine protecting against hospitalisation during Omicron wave &#8211; study"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 75px;height: 75px;border-radius: 50%;background: url(https:\/\/nordot-res.cloudinary.com\/c_limit,w_200,h_200,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/ch\/units\/721958051058909184\/profile_1.jpg);background-position: center;background-size: cover;vertical-align: middle\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 5px;font-size: 14px;font-weight: bold;vertical-align: middle\">Published by <br \/>Reuters<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px\"><\/div>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) &#8211; Two doses of Pfizer-BioNTech&#8217;s COVID-19 vaccine appear to have given 70% protection against hospitalisation in South Africa in recent weeks, a major real-world study on the potential impact of Omicron showed on Tuesday, as the country battles a spike in infections linked to the new variant. The study released by South Africa&#8217;s largest private health insurance administrator, Discovery Health, was based on more than 211,000 positive COVID-19 test results from Nov. 15 to Dec. 7, around 78,000 of which were attributed to Omicron. The 78,000 results are not confirmed Omicro&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"nordot-read-more \" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nordot.app\/843419922416353280?c=819177386184916992\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published by Reuters JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) &#8211; Two doses of Pfizer-BioNTech&#8217;s COVID-19 vaccine appear to have given 70% protection against hospitalisation in South Africa in recent weeks, a major real-world study on the potential impact of Omicron showed on Tuesday, as the country battles a spike in infections linked to the new variant. The study released &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/pfizer-vaccine-protecting-against-hospitalisation-during-omicron-wave-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pfizer vaccine protecting against hospitalisation during Omicron wave &#8211; study&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":38060,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38059,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38058\/revisions\/38059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}