How well do various vaccines reduce severe COVID disease & death? Awesome @YaleMed students, @dariusdariusdar, @ChaneyKalinich, @Larson_HaleighT & Caroline Valdez put together summary tables from vaccine trials. Remarkable ability of vaccines to ⬇️ severe/lethal COVID! 🧵(1/n)
The phase 3 Pfizer BioNTech two-shot mRNA vaccine trial data. All the tables here and below indicate the # COVID-related death in the vaccinated as the right-most column (which is ZERO). (2/n)

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2034577#.YCAZi3KidkU.twitter
The phase 3 Moderna two-shot mRNA vaccine COVE trial. (3/n)

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2035389#.YCAaBNSBGIw.twitter
The phase 3 trial of AstraZeneca Oxford Chimp Adeno ChAdOx1 vaccine. Two-shots - Standard doses 1 and 2 or Low dose 1 + Standard dose 2. (4/n)

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3777268
Efficacy of Gamaleya Sputnik V rAd26 rAd5 two-shot vaccine interim analysis (after 21 days from first dose). (7/n)

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)00234-8/fulltext
Here is a great thread related to this by @MonicaGandhi9 👇🏽 (8/n) https://twitter.com/MonicaGandhi9/status/1356818441064206337?s=20
With all these vaccines, some approved, EUA, others soon to be approved, we can bring down the number of severe & lethal COVID. The variants are here, but current vaccines still protect from severe disease & vaccines for the variants are coming. We will get through this! (End)
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