Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% protection

Re:Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% prote... by berdario on Monday November 09, 2020 @09:54AM (#25035368)

How does this compare to the chinese vaccine?

It's already in use around the world[1], but I haven't heard of how many people gain immunity thanks to it in percentage, nor if that one also requires multiple jabs.

1. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/11/3/uae-pm-and-dubai-ru...

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Re:Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% prote... by dehrmann on Monday November 09, 2020 @08:26PM (#25041955)

Or the Russian one /s

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Re:Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% prote... by bluGill on Monday November 09, 2020 @11:54AM (#25036745)

Who knows. This is the first to track and announce scientific results. It may be better or worse, we don't know. Maybe numbers are being kept and we can figure out in a few years. Maybe the Chinese are not keeping track in any way and we will never know.

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Re:Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% prote... by berdario on Monday November 09, 2020 @09:58PM (#25042436)

I looked a bit further, and they shared data on their vaccine already in August, but there are gaps:

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/sinopharm-shares-phase...

"unlike other COVID-19 vaccine trials, the study lacked a comparison arm featuring serum samples from patients previously infected with the coronavirus, complicating the task of interpreting whether the response is likely to confer immunity."

It seems that a vaccine needing a 2nd booster jab is also something that is quite common.

Anyhow, good news all around... The more viable vaccines we have, the more likely that the pandemic will be controlled sooner.

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