According to an analysis of British data, the vaccine from Biontec and Pfizer also prevents infection with the coronavirus. The risk of infection drops by around 70 percent after the first of the two planned doses and by around 85 percent after the second, the British health authority Public Health England announced yesterday, citing preliminary data that has not yet been verified by independent experts .
„This suggests that the vaccine could also help interrupt the transmission of the virus because you cannot pass the virus on if you are not infected,“ the message said. The reported values go back to the „Siren“ study, in which questionnaires on symptoms, smears and blood serum samples are regularly analyzed for a group of around 40,000 employees from the health sector.
If further analyzes confirm that the vaccines currently used significantly reduce the transmission of the virus, the pandemic could be effectively slowed down with the ongoing vaccination campaigns – and the faster the faster large parts of the population are vaccinated.
