Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

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haxxiy said:

Chile has some interesting real-world data on the effectiveness of vaccines against a mostly Gamma/Lambda outbreak.

CoronaVac had 87% VE vs. hospitalizations, 90% ICU admission, 86% deaths. Meanwhile, Pfizer had 97% VE vs. hospitalizations, 98% ICU admission, 92% deaths. Limitation of the study: the Chilean healthcare system was rather strained during this period, so efficacy against hospitalization might have been overstated, and against deaths, understated.

It might seem not like a huge difference but it means 4 - 5 times more people end up needing a hospital/ICU bed after being double vaccinated with CoronaVac than Pfizer. This is the sort of discrepancy that might end up having a significant effect with a Delta variant wave (see Seychelles and Mongolia, where most adults were vaccinated with the similar Sinopharm vaccine).

Im happy denmark was like... nope, we're not doing the astrazeneca vaccine, anyone wanna trade us, for some Pfizer?
After looking at the data, for how effective it was, and how many people were getting blood clots ect.

Almost everyone here, is vaccinated with pfizer.