Israel begins it’s Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine rollout

On December 19, 2020, Israel begins it’s COVID-19 vaccine roll-out, the day after Hanukkah – “after paying a premium for supplies of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine”  The first shot began with Prime Minister Netanyahu.

“If everyone cooperates, keeps the rules and goes to get vaccinated, we’ll get out of this and we could well be the first country in the world to emerge from this [pandemic]. Let’s do it together” said Netanyahu

By January 1, 2021, more than 10% of Israel’s population is said to have received their first dose of Pfizer’s vaccine.  According to Pfizer executive Israel is ‘a sort of laboratory’ for Pfizer COVID vaccines. [1]

Four days after roll out, “the more contagious U.K. variant [later called Alpha] was detected in four people, and by February 10, 2021 “while the vaccine is preventing illness in older people, the variant now makes up about 80 percent of new cases.”