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Re:Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK by d_tr on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @10:05AM (#25276943)
The efficacy does not need to be super-high, provided enough people decide to actually go get vaccinated, and the percentage of skeptical people seems to be quite high.

Plus, any given vaccinated individual would have to rely less on others being vaccinated as well.

But I am grateful that vaccines got developed and tested so quickly anyway.

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Re:Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK by Toenex on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @12:29PM (#25278790)
Yes I think they only need to hit 50% for approval. Conservatively they were getting 62% as I recall and the 'experimental endpoint' dose got them to 90%.

The Oxford vaccine is far cheaper (15x) and easier to store so long term it has a lot of competitive advantages.

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