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?
- 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.
- 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.
I’ll just leave this here : ) https://xkcd.com/2400/ (Bonus text on image hover!)