Good news for Pfizer and BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine. Data from Israel showed that just one dose prevented 75 percent of infections, potentially bolstering arguments for delaying second shots. (The research didn’t determine how long single-dose protection lasted.) The drug companies also announced that their vaccine could be stored safely in standard freezers for up to two weeks, which might mean it can be deployed more widely.
New York Times
Me: Pfizer was advertised as being 95% effective and now we have “good news” saying that it is 75% effective with one dose, which leaves the question of how effective is it with 2 shots?
Statisticians manufacture these results to sell a product, but what they don’t tell you is how they concocted the numbers to get 95% or 75% when in fact, the truth might be significantly lower. So when it was 95% that was 9.5 people out of 10. Now it is 7.5 people out of 10, but lets suppose it is more like 5 people out of 10 who won’t get Covid and the other 5 out of 10 who will. With a 50/50 chance of getting Covid, that is a lot like playing Russian Roulette with 5 of the 10 chambers loaded with random bullets a bit like holding the gun to your head and pulling the trigger, will you blow your brains out or not?
For me, my salt water cure on the Coronavirus before it gets to be Covid anything and so far as I am concerned 100% effective for a heaped teaspoon of salt in a mug of warm water – well you know the rest, or you should by now.
Your life, your choice……
“If you don’t at first succeed, try and try again. Try number 2”
