Quote:
Originally Posted by Pierre
I haven’t seen those figures, everything I’ve seen is around 60% for two and above 75% for three.
And there is still precious little data here on severity of illness.
|
Jfman knows better than the WHO when it comes to discussing vaccine efficacy and prefers to discuss efficacy in his own terms. I guess he’s just a glass half empty sort of guy.
Meanwhile, according to the explainer here …
https://www.who.int/news-room/featur...and-protection
… efficacy is a vaccine’s ability to prevent development of disease, which in this case is Covid-19, and not its ability to eliminate detectable infection, in this case of the virus designated SARS-CoV-2.
According to that globally-accepted definition, we can indeed discuss Oxford/Astra, Pfizer, Moderna and the rest in terms of their ability to prevent people getting sick, and by that measure the statistics you quoted are the ones that apply.