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    1. Two studies from Israel found that two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine were 81% effective at preventing COVID-19 infections and reduced virus transmission from vaccinated people who did get infected by up to 78%. 2. While vaccines offer strong protection, research shows they provide slightly reduced protection against the highly transmissible Delta variant. There is no published data yet on how vaccines affect infections and transmission of Delta specifically. 3. Vaccines may provide less protection against symptomatic disease from Delta than from the original Alpha variant, which could also mean a drop in how well they prevent Delta transmission, but the level of certainty is still unclear.

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    1. Two studies from Israel found that two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine were 81% effective at preventing COVID-19 infections and reduced virus transmission from vaccinated people who did get infected by up to 78%. 2. While vaccines offer strong protection, research shows they provide slightly reduced protection against the highly transmissible Delta variant. There is no published data yet on how vaccines affect infections and transmission of Delta specifically. 3. Vaccines may provide less protection against symptomatic disease from Delta than from the original Alpha variant, which could also mean a drop in how well they prevent Delta transmission, but the level of certainty is still unclear.

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    1. Two studies from Israel found that two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine were 81% effective at preventing COVID-19 infections and reduced virus transmission from vaccinated people who did get infected by up to 78%. 2. While vaccines offer strong protection, research shows they provide slightly reduced protection against the highly transmissible Delta variant. There is no published data yet on how vaccines affect infections and transmission of Delta specifically. 3. Vaccines may provide less protection against symptomatic disease from Delta than from the original Alpha variant, which could also mean a drop in how well they prevent Delta transmission, but the level of certainty is still unclear.

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    WORD FORMATION (09/08/2021)

    Part 1: For questions 1-6, complete the extract using the correct form of the
    words in brackets.
    Two studies from Israel find that two doses of the vaccine made by Pfizer and
    BioNtech are 81% effective at preventing SARS-CoV-2 infections. And people who
    have gotten the COVID-19 vaccines and do get infected are up to 78% less likely to
    spread the virus to household members than are ___________ (1. VACCINE) people.
    Although most of the benefit is because vaccines prevent infection in the first place,
    “the fact that they also reduce the infectiousness of ___________ (2. BREAK) cases is
    important and reassuring”, says Virginia Pitzer, who is an infectious-diseases modeler
    at Yale School of Public Health in New Haven, Connecticut, and one of the ___________
    (3. AUTHOR) of the Israel studies.
    However, research suggests that vaccines offer slightly reduced protection
    against the highly ___________ (4. TRANSMIT) Delta strain. So far, there is no
    published data on how vaccines actually affect infections and infectiousness with
    Delta, but a UK study shows that the Pfizer–BioNTech and Oxford–AstraZeneca
    vaccines both protect slightly less well against symptomatic disease caused by Delta
    ___________ (5. VARY) than against that caused by Alpha. This could also mean a
    drop in how well they protect against transmission of Delta, but there is still a lot of
    ___________ (6. CERTAIN), says Dean.
    Part 2: For questions 7-15, complete the sentences below using the correct form
    of the words in brackets.
    7. Several small studies have shown that _____ women who have received a
    COVID-19 mRNA vaccine have antibodies in their milk. (BREAST)
    8. After a loss of roughly $1000 due to pilferage, John spent thousands on security
    cameras and alarms to deter _____. (SHOP)
    9. His __________ never fail to amuse whoever talks to him, and that’s a very big
    part of his charm. (WIT)
    10. Paying adequate attention to your children’s development helps parents timely
    recognize and __________ possible problems. (STALL)
    11. The young athlete was charged with a doping offense and was __________
    from the European Championships next year. (BAR)
    12. She has long enjoyed the privileges __________ to a celebrity and hardly
    avoids feeling shocked when losing them. (PERTAIN)
    13. There has been a series of government __________ on safety in factories after
    the fatal accident of the 12 workers. (CRACK)
    14. Professor Howard has been __________ as the principal of the college after
    students protested against his unfair dismissal. (STATE)
    15. Using violence is unacceptable, but the behaviour of those young
    demonstrators seem to be just as __________ as that of the police. (BLAME)

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