CV and mad panic behaviour

[LP]

When it comes to the efficacy reported by the various vaccine makers, doesn't it depend on how comparable the testing pools for the vaccines might be?

I haven't followed it very closely, so I'm not professing to have the answers. I have a fuzzy recollection that the Pfizer & Moderna vaccines were tested earlier than the others and that means they were largely tested before the South African & British variants took root. On the other hand, AZ was tested in South Africa and their variant is by far the most challenging one.  Could differences in the pools have influenced the reported efficacy of vaccines? 

[member=122]Mav[/member]‍  We do not get to answer it because Pfizer and Moderna won't release the data, it could be they excluded certain groups from the cohort study as part of the trial setup. At this stage we will never know about those figures, ............. until we know retrospectively months or years later.

I have no problem with companies making some profit from this, in fact perhaps it makes sense for them to be required by law to sell it above cost as the survival of those companies stops us being dependant on China. I don't read anybody writing for us to wait for the SinoVac vaccine who have now jumped on board with Merck and GSK! :o