efficacies
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For the next pandemic, if we have certain vaccines with starting efficacies, we can predict the minimum proportion we need to vaccinate to achieve vaccine-induced herd immunity.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 6, 2023
That would make it still well above the 50% threshold needed for FDA authorization, but would pale in comparison to the 90-plus efficacies of other COVID-19 vaccines.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 25, 2021
Further tests would be needed to judge how much the 2P mutation contributes to the overall efficacies of the frontrunner vaccines.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 31, 2020
Along these lines, computational studies have shown that ligands with different efficacies modulate the free-energy landscape of the receptor by shifting the conformational equilibrium towards active or inactive conformations depending on their elicited physiological response.
From Nature ● Feb. 13, 2013
In silence and secrecy thought has been working, and the benignant efficacies of concealment speak for themselves.
From Ku Klux Klan Its Origin, Growth and Disbandment by J. C. Lester
