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Re:India approves first DNA Covid vaccine by evgen on Saturday August 21, 2021 @06:05AM (#28255699)
Very cool if the efficacy numbers turn out to be true. No reason to doubt them, but a few of the vaccines have turned out to have wildly worse efficacy numbers in the real world compared to what was reported by the manufacturer. 28K trial pool (including children) is good, let's see if the numbers hold up over time.
Re:India approves first DNA Covid vaccine by avodonosov on Saturday August 21, 2021 @06:28AM (#28255800)
is 66% good, comparing to other vaccines?
Re:India approves first DNA Covid vaccine by xvector on Saturday August 21, 2021 @06:37AM (#28255833)
Most vaccines seem to be pretty shit versus the Delta variant. Pfizer/Moderna are about 53%: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7034e3.htm
Re:India approves first DNA Covid vaccine by schuke on Saturday August 21, 2021 @06:41AM (#28255848)
The CDC website said Pfizer is 53% effective against infection while the Indian one is 66% against symptomatic delta. So it’s probably still not as good as the mRNA ones.
Re:India approves first DNA Covid vaccine by thoughty on Saturday August 21, 2021 @07:29AM (#28256075)
I believe The data from Israel was that Pfizer was 64% effective Against symptomatic delta variant.
Re:India approves first DNA Covid vaccine by phonypc on Saturday August 21, 2021 @08:37AM (#28256475)
53% "among nursing home residents"