From a purely marketing perspective, I’d be curious if you think there were any better way to phrase the efficacy to be more convincing for people who might be less inclined to vax?
Separate q: do you have a sense of what the efficacy rate is for the more “standard” panel of vaccines that we get? Are covid vaccine efficacies better/worse than say the measles or polio vaccine? I feel like this is also an underreported comparison data point.
Great questions. One thing for sure that should be reported are the efficacies against the more severe forms of covid, which all the vaccines did an astonishingly good job at. I'm not sure there's a way to prevent the media from reporting the numbers in the trials, but if the FDA had a rating system or something like that, it may have pre-empted the trial numbers and been a more effective way of communicating it. Both the measles and polio vaccines are like 90-100% effective, but the flu vaccines we get every year are 40-60% effective
From a purely marketing perspective, I’d be curious if you think there were any better way to phrase the efficacy to be more convincing for people who might be less inclined to vax?
Separate q: do you have a sense of what the efficacy rate is for the more “standard” panel of vaccines that we get? Are covid vaccine efficacies better/worse than say the measles or polio vaccine? I feel like this is also an underreported comparison data point.
Great questions. One thing for sure that should be reported are the efficacies against the more severe forms of covid, which all the vaccines did an astonishingly good job at. I'm not sure there's a way to prevent the media from reporting the numbers in the trials, but if the FDA had a rating system or something like that, it may have pre-empted the trial numbers and been a more effective way of communicating it. Both the measles and polio vaccines are like 90-100% effective, but the flu vaccines we get every year are 40-60% effective