Oh come on. "95% efficacy" for either Moderna or Pfizer in the FDA process DOES NOT mean "95% less severe hospitalizations and death in vax'ed individuals." This is a strikingly incorrect "correction."https://twitter.com/Laurie_Garrett/status/1359219118315036673 …
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The efficacy endpoint for these trials has been "any symptomatic disease"—even sniffles, headache, fever. That's what the 95% refers to, not "less severe hospitalization & death" which, in the trials (all the trials) have been reduced by 100%. Transmission, is another thing.
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So glad I follow you (thanks to
@florasutherland). I fancy myself pretty well-informed but I didn’t know this - what “efficacy” really means.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
... I thought it meant it gave you a 94% better chance of “winning the lottery” of evading the virus, but if you lost, it could still kill you. This is... much better than that, to put it mildly!
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It is much much much better than that!
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