A 90% Effective Vaccine

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The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Health & Fitness, News, Science

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Jim and Katherine get sent to the principal (the lead principal investigator of the Pfizer vaccine trial). Dr. Stephen Thomas, now a key figure evaluating the Pfizer vaccine, returns to explain promising preliminary data that shows it to be 90% effective. Support this show and all of The Atlantic’s journalism by becoming a subscriber at www.theatlantic.com/supportus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Catherine.
0:05.0	Jame?
0:07.0	No, that's not my name.
0:09.0	It's Jim.
0:10.0	Well, your Skype name says James Hamblin.
0:13.0	Just the one.
0:15.0	Just the one, James.
0:16.2	Yeah, I don't know why it says that.
0:19.4	Okay, well, James, Pfizer, Pfizer, Pfizer, vaccine.
0:25.0	What is the news?
0:27.8	It sounded like really good news, right?
0:29.8	I think everyone got a push alert
0:32.0	or at least heard the news on Monday that Pfizer announced that its vaccine
0:37.1	was 90% effective in a preliminary round of data, which means that it actually has not completed a clinical
0:47.6	trial, there's a two-year trial that's ongoing, but after the first couple months, it seems to be protecting people.
0:56.0	The top line of it is, seems to be 90% effective, which would mean, if true, that if you get vaccinated you will have 90% chance of
1:06.8	effectively becoming immune. I mean honestly I was kind of a type A kid so
1:10.6	90% they said it was 90% effective and I'm like that's an A minus
1:15.2	you were type I don't know if I would have found that acceptable as a as a 12 year old
1:20.0	child for myself fine you know so I think that's good enough. I can hear the judgment in your voice. We talked
1:31.0	about you know vaccine effectiveness levels on a past episode, but no vaccine is ever 100%.
1:38.6	Some of them are very, very good.
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