Why you can't compare COVID vaccines

[BassWrangler]

The linked video has a very good explanation of what vaccine efficacy rate actually means, how it's sometimes difficult to compare the values for different vaccines, and how the actual important metric is what percentage of vaccinated people actually get COVID bad enough to require hospitalization. If you are vaccinated, with any of these vaccines, you could still get COVID, but it would be more like a cold and not at all life threatening.

Generally I am not a fan of Vox, but this is an excellent video.


https://youtu.be/K3odScka55A

[thackney]

Worthwhile to understand the protection provided by the vaccines.  Thanks for sharing.

[DefiantMassRINO]

I like to multi-source information from mainly data driven sites.  The below are very scientific and medical.

The technologies behind the vaccines are going to revolutionize the treatment of disease, cancer, and chronic illnesses for decades to come.

NextStrain is a data-driven site for pathogen tracking:
https://nextstrain.org/

Other online resources:
https://www.biospace.com/article/comparing-covid-19-vaccines-pfizer-biontech-moderna-astrazeneca-oxford-j-and-j-russia-s-sputnik-v/
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2035389
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41541-021-00292-w
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2777059
https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/covid-19-vaccine-comparison