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Re:Pfizer submits Covid vaccine to FDA for approval, to dist... by fuzxi on Friday November 20, 2020 @07:13PM (#25166717)
The 95% effective figure refers to the percentage of people who develop full immunity, not how resistant an individual is. A more accurate way of phrasing that would be "[...] if I only have a 95% chance of immunity".

I don't mean to split hairs; the distinction is important.

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