TheExplainer of the Week: Vox Media

Why You Can't Compare COVID-19 Vaccines

This week’s shout-out goes to Vox for explaining why efficacy is not the best measure to compare vaccines and why you should take the first vaccine you can get. In Vox’s video, Why you can't compare Covid-19 vaccines, they clearly explain why the clinical trial data indicates all the vaccines are highly protective.

In all these trials, not one fully vaccinated person

was hospitalized or died from COVID-19

The only way to compare efficacy rates would be in trials designed for head-to-head comparisons; these type of studies have not been conducted. Rather, the vaccine trials were conducted under very different circumstances – at different times, in different populations, and at times when case-rates and variants were at different levels. Thus, comparing efficacy rates reported in these trials is not helpful or appropriate.

Take the vaccine you are offered.

They are all keeping folks alive and out of the hospital!

Clear. Simple. Science.