{"id":9037,"date":"2021-03-23T09:27:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T00:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/razman-ayop\/?p=9037"},"modified":"2021-03-23T09:27:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T00:57:17","slug":"why-you-cant-compare-covid-19-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/razman-ayop\/why-you-cant-compare-covid-19-vaccines\/","title":{"rendered":"Why you can&#8217;t compare Covid-19 vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why you can&#039;t compare Covid-19 vaccines\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K3odScka55A?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>In the US, the first two available Covid-19 vaccines were the ones from Pfizer\/BioNTech and Moderna. Both vaccines have very high &#8220;efficacy rates,&#8221; of around 95%. But the third vaccine introduced in the US, from Johnson &amp; Johnson, has a considerably lower efficacy rate: just 66%. Look at those numbers next to each other, and it&#8217;s natural to conclude that one of them is considerably worse. Why settle for 66% when you can have 95%? But that isn&#8217;t the right way to understand a vaccine&#8217;s efficacy rate, or even to understand what a vaccine does. And public health experts say that if you really want to know which vaccine is the best one, efficacy isn&#8217;t actually the most important number at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the US, the first two available Covid-19 vaccines were the ones from Pfizer\/BioNTech and Moderna. Both vaccines have very high &#8220;efficacy rates,&#8221; of around 95%. But the third vaccine introduced in the US, from Johnson &amp; Johnson, has a considerably lower efficacy rate: just 66%. Look at those numbers next to each other, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24954,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-variety","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/razman-ayop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/razman-ayop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/razman-ayop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/razman-ayop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24954"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/razman-ayop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/razman-ayop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9038,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/razman-ayop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9037\/revisions\/9038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/razman-ayop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/razman-ayop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/razman-ayop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}