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

To get a little technical, the Pfizer data, in particular, had wide confidence intervals—basically, the efficacies are more like pretty good estimates, than numbers that the scientists are really certain of.

From Slate • Jun. 22, 2022

Still, the vaccines, shown in clinical trials to have efficacies of up to 95% against symptomatic disease, have finally given the world the prospect of an escape from COVID-19’s long siege.

From Science Magazine • Feb. 16, 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

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.