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Re:Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, tri... by refurb on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @04:47AM (#25121838)
As far as I can tell, the Pfizer and Moderna "data releases" are identical. Basically press releases giving the top line result.

Pfizer hit their interim analysis point before Moderna did, but only by a few days.

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Re:Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, tri... by bluGill on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @08:08AM (#25123290)
They are not identical, unless (unknown to me, but possible) Pfizer has released more since the initial press release. Pfizer (again at least in the initial release) said a number of infections, and "at least 90% effective". Moderna released a number of infections and the number in that who got the placebo vs vaccine.

The difference is not very big, but to those who like numbers it is big enough.

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