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Re:Pfizer submits Covid vaccine to FDA for approval, to dist... by Exmoor on Friday November 20, 2020 @12:38PM (#25162786)
>"I might even go so far as to say that this face mask is more guaranteed to protect me against COVID than when I take a COVID vaccine, because it may be 70%. And if I don't get an immune response, the vaccine is not going to protect me,"

This is from September before the results of the vaccines were known. The two vaccines we have data on have a ~95% protection rate from getting symptomatic COVID. Additionally, of that 5% of vaccinated folks who did get symptomatic COVID, there cases appear to be much less severe than the control group.

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Re:Pfizer submits Covid vaccine to FDA for approval, to dist... by chaostheory on Friday November 20, 2020 @12:39PM (#25162802)
That's based on PR statements alone. Unless I missed it, they still haven't released any data.
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