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Moderna's Covid vaccine shows nearly 95% protection
- dredmorbius 6y agoDupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25110665 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25110665
- judge2020 6y agoFor some reason, that one isn't on the front page, yet this one is top of HN.
- dredmorbius 6y agoThat's ... unfortunate. I was going by first-posted story, which is how priority frequently (though by no means always) goes. This story is getting frequently submitted. Feel free to downnvote my GP top-leveel comment as I cannot edit or delete it.
- dang 6y agoComments merged thither. Thanks!
- alexandr1us 6y agoHN can hate me for this but I'm not taking novel not properly tested mRNA vaccine at least for another 5 years. If I remember correctly moderna's initial test vaccines caused serious liver damage in guinea pigs. If there will be classic vaccine I'm taking it
- geland 6y agoIs it common practice to measure effectiveness in this way? They only evaluated ~90 of their 30000 test group, and out of that tiny sliver of the data there were more in the placebo group that got covid than the vaccinated group. My questions would be: Does their small subset have the same number of vaccinated vs placebo? Are the ~90 evaluated cases representative of the whole group, or are they only from one area or health profile? How long have they followed this group? It still seems like this early on in the study you could cherry pick the data to show any amount of effectiveness that you want. Am I missing something?