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[ef-i-kuh-see] / ˈɛf ɪ kə si /


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Pfizer and the French-Swiss firm Valneva say trials have shown a 70 percent efficacy rate in people aged five and above for a disease that currently has no approved vaccine.

From Barron's Aug. 14, 2026

But some analysts had pointed out amlitelimab’s efficacy didn’t beat Sanofi’s existing treatment Dupixent, the group’s bestselling product.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

Panel member Elizabeth Rebello, a pharmacist and anaesthesiologist, told the committee she had voted no on BPC-157 "because of the lack of efficacy data" and "safety concerns", Reuters news agency reported.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

Allowing compounding pharmacies to legally produce peptides isn’t a stamp of approval from the FDA about their safety or efficacy.

From MarketWatch Jul. 24, 2026

That’s the kind of fatalism and pessimism typical of a repressive feudal system, where peasants have no reason to believe in the efficacy of their own work.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

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

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

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

The believer in these processes thinks that certain acts possess particular efficacies beyond those evident to his observation and reason; and that peculiar malignities are to be expected as the consequence of certain other acts.

From Applied Eugenics by Paul Popenoe




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