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Re:Pfizer submits Covid vaccine to FDA for approval, to dist... by anonuser123456 on Friday November 20, 2020 @10:02AM (#25161051)
The 95% effective is not a cliff function. The 5% that ‘get it’ have mild symptoms. We won’t know how effective it at preventing serious disease until millions have been inoculated, but it will likely be 99%+ effective with that outcome.
Re:Pfizer submits Covid vaccine to FDA for approval, to dist... by bluGill on Friday November 20, 2020 @02:21PM (#25163868)
We know that in one of the trials one of the serious cases was in the intervention group. We will of course need a lot more data to figure out what the real reduction in rate of serious events is.