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13% is the reduction in all-cause mortality — ie, if every death this prevented was a death from malaria, this reduced deaths from malaria by over 99%.
by freeone3000 3y ago
13% is the reduction in all-cause mortality — ie, if every death this prevented was a death from malaria, this reduced deaths from malaria by over 99%.
- saberdancer 3y agoThis would mean that a lot of malaria related deaths are unaccounted for or that the vaccine is helping in another way.
- freeone3000 3y agoOne hypothesis is that some people who caught malaria but did not die from malaria, did die more frequently to another cause where having had malaria was a contributing factor to that death.