Covid-19 roundup: Ear­ly Is­rael da­ta show boost­ers may slow Delta; Fau­ci says Pfiz­er/BioN­Tech OK will spur man­dates

At the height of last win­ter’s Covid-19 surge, Is­rael launched one of the world’s fastest vac­ci­na­tion dri­ves thanks to sup­plies from Pfiz­er and BioN­Tech, but the coun­try re­cent­ly saw a surge in cas­es due to the high­ly con­ta­gious Delta vari­ant. To com­bat the new wave, the Is­raeli gov­ern­ment ini­ti­at­ed a boost­er shot dri­ve, and the first re­sults are com­ing back pos­i­tive.

The coro­n­avirus’ re­pro­duc­tion rate has dipped be­low 1 among the over-60 age group for the first time since the Delta surge be­gan, Reuters re­port­ed Tues­day, a sign of­fi­cials say the boost­er shots are work­ing. Such re­duc­tions mean peo­ple with Covid-19 are now, on av­er­age, in­fect­ing less than one oth­er per­son.

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