This is the best Covid-19 graph I’ve ever seen

The Pfizer vaccine flat-out works. Read the New England Journal of Medicine article yourself; open access:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2034577

But, what’s the TL;DR?

1. The control group (blue line measuring cumulative, or total number of infections of Covid-19 in the control group) grows at a constant rate, as expected.
2. The vaccine group (red line) rises in parallel for the first 9 days, and then by day 10, BAM the red line is almost completely flat, indicating almost NO infections in the vaccine group. This makes sense, as it takes the body awhile to detect the vaccine antigen (spike protein), then manufacture antibodies in great volume

SO COOL. As Michelle Barron MD, our infection prevention specialist states: “I would have been happy with a vaccine that is 50% effective, like the flu shot some years. This one is 95% effective.”

Wow. Hang in there everybody.

Author: CT Lin

CMIO, UCHealth (Colorado); Professor, University of Colorado School of Medicine View all posts by CT Lin