Covid-19 vaccine must protect 50% of people for approval, FDA says

Posted by elsewhen on Thursday July 02, 2020 @10:16AM
from the arstechnica.com dept.

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Re:Covid-19 vaccine must protect 50% of people for approval,... by bitdotdash on Thursday July 02, 2020 @10:22AM (#23713379)

Seems like an awfully low bar, but I suppose we can go for progressive enhancement, so long as it's also safe.

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Re:Covid-19 vaccine must protect 50% of people for approval,... by sp332 on Thursday July 02, 2020 @10:31AM (#23713498)

It's not spreading that fast right now. https://covid19-projections.com/infections-tracker/ Cutting the average rate by half means we can roll back a bunch of restrictions and still be below 1.

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Re:Covid-19 vaccine must protect 50% of people for approval,... by JMTQp8lwXL on Thursday July 02, 2020 @10:25AM (#23713413)

Interesting as Fauci has said he'd "settle" for 70-75%. This seems too low.

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