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

Obsessed with holistic health, we are also susceptible to pitches about the mysterious efficacies of neurons and transmitters.

From Slate • Jan. 7, 2014

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 Lester, J. C.