Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to US President Joe Biden, had the highest praise for Israel's record-setting vaccination drive.
On Tuesday, Israel passed another key milestone in its campaign against COVID-19, delivering the country's four-millionth prime jab.
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"When you look at the amount of vaccinations per hundred people, Israel is way up there," he said in a press conference, a segment from which Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu posted to his Twitter account on Thursday.
"Israel has a remarkable diminution in cases, associated with the efficiency of their vaccine," Fauci added.
Fauci told reporters that in addition to protecting people from the virus, a new study from Israel showed that vaccines also appeared to reduce the viral load of people who were asymptomatically infected.
"The vaccine is important not only for the health of the individual to protect them against infection and disease, including the variants... but it also has very important implications from a public health standpoint, for interfering and diminishing the dynamics of the outbreak," he said.
Earlier this week, Fauci, who is also the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, won Israel's prestigious Dan David Prize for 2021.
Fauci "is the consummate model of leadership and impact in public health," the awards committee said in a statement.
This article was first published by i24NEWS.
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