- plural of efficacy.
efficacies
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For young kids, there are now two vaccines available with very similar mechanisms but different doses, dosing intervals and efficacies.
From Scientific American • Jun. 15, 2022
But Pfizer and Moderna’s vaccines have efficacies of 95 percent and 94.5 percent, respectively, at preventing moderate to severe disease.
From Slate • Mar. 5, 2021
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
That these two are different will easily be clear to anyone who passes in review their respective efficacies.
From The Consolation of Philosophy by James, H. R. (Henry Rosher)