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Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine is 90 percent effective at preventing death from the Delta variant, a new study finds.
Researchers from the University of Edinburgh, in Scotland, gathered data from the country's national vaccine surveillance platform to determine the effectiveness of the vaccines against death.
The study is the first to show across an entire country how effective vaccines are at preventing fatalities from the Delta variant, which is the most dominant strain of Covid in the UK.
The team also found that the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine was 91 percent effective at preventing death from the virus.
A Scottish research team found that the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is 90% effective at preventing death from the Delta variant. Pictured: A vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine
The Pfizer vaccine is the most commonly used jab in the United States, having been administered over 240 million times and fully vaccinating over 104 million people. Pictured: A woman in New York City receives a shot of a COVID-19 vaccine on August 10
'With the Delta variant now the dominant strain in many places worldwide and posing a higher risk of hospitalization than previous variants seen in the UK, it is reassuring to see that vaccination offers such high protection from death very shortly after the second dose,' said Dr Aziz Sheikh, lead researcher and director of the University
