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Vaccines offer AMAZING protection from COVID-19. But if you do get sick, do they protect you from severe illness?
At first glance, yes: ZERO hospitalizations for COVID in trial pts who got vaccine. But, so few even got sick; how sure can we be?
On closer look: also YES…
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At first glance, yes: ZERO hospitalizations for COVID in trial pts who got vaccine. But, so few even got sick; how sure can we be?
On closer look: also YES…
1/3 https://twitter.com/roby_bhatt/status/1355146062684688388
(Overly?) simple sum of severe cases in placebo (P) vs vax (V) in trials:
Pfizer/BNT: 9 of 162 P, 1 of 8 V (not hosp)
Moderna: 30 of 185 P, 0 of 11 V
AZ: 10 of 101 P, 0 of 30 V
Novavax: 2 of 85 P, 0 of 21 V
TOT: 51/533 cases (9.6%) severe in P, 1/70 (1.4%) in V, p~0.01
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Pfizer/BNT: 9 of 162 P, 1 of 8 V (not hosp)
Moderna: 30 of 185 P, 0 of 11 V
AZ: 10 of 101 P, 0 of 30 V
Novavax: 2 of 85 P, 0 of 21 V
TOT: 51/533 cases (9.6%) severe in P, 1/70 (1.4%) in V, p~0.01
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(no J&J b/c no numbers in press release, but w 0 hosp in vaccine recipients, that would only help)
This is NOT a careful meta-analysis, just back-of-the-
, but looks like vaccines greatly reduce risk of getting sick, and even IF sick, greatly reduce risk of severe illness.
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This is NOT a careful meta-analysis, just back-of-the-
, but looks like vaccines greatly reduce risk of getting sick, and even IF sick, greatly reduce risk of severe illness.3/3
