efficacy
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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
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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
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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