Coronavirus vaccine with 50% or more efficacy would be a 'game changer,' says trial investigator

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'A 50% efficacy would be transformative. It's much better than zero, which is what we have right now,' Dr. Carlos del Rio of Emory University said on CNBC's 'Squawk Box.'

, the agency's commissioner, said at the time it would be "unrealistic" to expect a vaccine to be 100% effective.

"A 50% efficacy would be transformative. It's much better than zero, which is what we have right now," del Rio told CNBC. "So I think it'd really be a game changer if we get a vaccine with 50% or greater efficacy." "You've got to think of the vaccine as a tool to be able to get the pandemic to no longer be a pandemic, but to be something that's well controlled," Fauci said Aug. 7 during a question-and-answer session with Brown University's School of Public Health.

"Between the people that have been infected plus the people that you've vaccinated, at 50% you would get there," said del Rio, a professor in the infectious disease division of Atlanta-based Emory's medical school. He also is co-director of the Emory Center for AIDS Research.

 

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The real change-maker Or innerstrength_immunity depends on our total lifestyle Global Citizenship read this !

Poor choice of words, 'game'.

That’s no better than a coin toss. As a high risk patient, I expect the vaccine to be 75%+ effective!!

50% not just NO butt Fuck NO!

And the other 50% will kill you.

You trust this people?

$GILD ?

No thanks

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