#Effectiveness

Nitish Singh

realnitsin

Noticed many people misinterpreting efficacy as effectiveness while talking or commenting around Pfizer/Moderna vaccines for Covid-19Efficacy is basically the performance of a treatment under an "ideal and controlled environment"

Dr. Theresa Chapple

Theresa_Chapple

To hear public health professionals with large platforms call the vaccine 95% effective, instead of distinguishing between efficacy and effectiveness, really concerns me. Vaccine efficacy is how well the vaccine

Jonathan Ball

JonathanKBall

Must confess to getting increasing concern about #sarscov2 #vaccine #effectiveness claims. The real data we need to see is either prevention of infection or reduction in transmission risk in lee-vulnerable

deonandan

deonandan

My thoughts re: today's news of the Pfizer/Biontech (thread):->43000 enrolled, but prelim data based on 94 instances of COVID infection, 90% of whom were in placebo group-this days after the

oatmeal🌾

neonalternative

people dont seem to understand music has 2 objective qualities that is known as innovativity and effectiveness at provoking emotion when understoodyou like it ≠ innovative or effective at provoking

Yuliya Shneyderman

Yuliya

A note on vaccines. The numbers we are seeing from Moderna and Pfizer are efficacy, not effectiveness. Efficacy is a number calculated during clinical trials - these are highly controlled

Yoong

yoongkhean

We shouldn’t be too fixated on vaccine efficacy. What ultimately is important (& I suspect most of us are talking about) is vaccine effectiveness (VE).Vaccine efficacy is % of reduction

Johannes Haushofer

jhaushofer

Here's what I think it means that the new @pfizer/@BioNTech_Group vaccine has an effectiveness of 90%. They define effectiveness as VE=100*(1-IRR), where IRR is the infection rate ratio, i.e. the

Brandon Aldae 🍎

BrandonAldae

This small shift in the way I journal made a radical change in its effectiveness. - THREAD - Journaling organizes life and rewrites the subconscious.Write the plan, execute. 2014 is

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

This is irresponsible & negligent- we haven't learned anything from past mistakes. Letting a big wave of infection flow through the UK would mean hundreds of thousands of people with

John Roberts

john_actuary

With more of the 80+s having been vaccinated since the new year, and allowing for protection to kick in, I'm watching the proportion of hospital deaths closely. The was a

Jessica Lu, MD

JessLuMD

As #COVID19 cases rise, I see a lot of discussion about #quaranteams or #socialbubbles, and what kind of socializing is safe. I think of social bubbles in terms of birth

Shaily Patel

vox_magica

we burn them out, pay them nothing, treat them terribly, and make them teach impossible course loads, yes.but some of the most innovative, effective pedagogues i know are contingent faculty.

Tamas Szakmany MBE

iamyourgasman

I'm an ICU Consultant, not a vaccine or Public Health expert. Nevertheless, I'm asked about vaccinations all the time. Here are my thoughts on this, paraphrased from @TimBuchmanMDPhD First, vaccine

Ashwin Varma

varma_ashwin97

I can scarcely believe this, but if so, this is an amazing result. @matthewherper @GermHunterMD @walidgellad @mikejohansenmd https://thecanadian.news/2021/01/23/major-breakthrough-large-study-shows-effectiveness-of-colchicine-to-treat-covid

jon hobson

jonbhobson

Any councillor of a “best value authority" can objectively prove that their council continuously breaks the law. To perform this duty, they only need to consider the following sentence from

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