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Re:Another drug approved despite review board by mohaine on Monday June 24, 2024 @11:21AM (#40777115)
At least for the Pfizer study, no Covid-19–associated deaths were observed in the study or control groups so this says more about COVID and the study than about the vaccine itself.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2034577

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Re:Another drug approved despite review board by jjoonathan on Monday June 24, 2024 @11:34AM (#40777310)
They were able to assess the efficacy by looking for illness, not death. It takes some verrrry "special" framing to twist this into anything but an enormous success:

> BNT162b2 was 95% effective in preventing Covid-19 (95% credible interval, 90.3 to 97.6).

Yet the deaths clearly mattered when multiplied up to population scale, because COVID was able to fill up the hospitals.

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