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Comparing COVID-19 Vaccines: Timelines, Types and Prices: Feb 08, 2021

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Pfizer-BioNTech
Type: mRNA

Doses: 2, 21 Days Apart

EUA Date: December 11, 2020

Price: $19.50 per dose for first 100 million doses

Efficacy: About 95%. Apparently 100% at preventing hospitalization and death.

Variants: Lab data suggest "quite effective" against the UK variant as well as the South African and Latin American variants.

Moderna
Type: mRNA

Doses: 2, 28 Days Apart

EUA Date: December 18, 2020

Price: $25-$37 per dose

Efficacy: About 95%. Apparently 100% at preventing hospitalization and death.

Variants: Lab data suggest "quite effective" against the UK variant as well as the South African and Latin American variants.

AstraZeneca-University of Oxford
Type: Adenovirus-based

Doses: 2, 28 Days Apart

Likely EUA Date: Authorized in Europe on January 12, 2021, and other countries, but unlikely in the U.S. until spring

Price: $2.15 (U.S.) in the EU; $3-4 (U.S.) in the UK and U.S.; $5.25 (U.S.) in South Africa

Efficacy: Currently about 70% overall.

Variants: At least one study finds it has little effect against the South African variant, but appears effective against UK and Brazilian variants.

Johnson & Johnson
Type: Adenovirus-based

Doses: 1

Authorized

Price: $10 per dose

Efficacy: In J&J’s global clinical trial, it demonstrated 66% efficacy at preventing symptomatic COVID-19 infections. In the U.S. it was slightly higher, 72%. Appears to be 100% effective at preventing hospitalizations and death.

Variants: Based on clinical studies in Africa, UK and Latin America, there is evidence the vaccine is effective against the variants, although less so against the South African and Latin American strains.
Exaggerated reports re side-effects for the last two. Any questions?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-04-15 08:52|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 So are side effects actually being exaggerated? If so, one could easily suspect it is because they are less expensive (since price received is probably calculated on a 'cost + percentage' basis.)

Posted by Glenmore 2021-04-15 10:41|| 2021-04-15 10:41|| Front Page Top

#2 fear is the mind killer

Posted by 746 2021-04-15 10:48|| 2021-04-15 10:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Just lost a friend to the Pfizer jab. Every drug has side effects, but I suspect these are being under reported. The blood clotting issue is getting air play, but it's kind of a nothingburger. Kind of similar to odds of having a negative reaction to aspirin.

Posted by Angstrom 2021-04-15 14:14|| 2021-04-15 14:14|| Front Page Top

#4 fear is the mind killer

Does that include fear of COVID?

Posted by Angstrom 2021-04-15 14:14|| 2021-04-15 14:14|| Front Page Top

#5 Maxine Waters snaps at Jim Jordan as COVID hearing with Fauci erupts into shouting match: ‘Shut your mouth’

Posted by Skidmark 2021-04-15 15:43|| 2021-04-15 15:43|| Front Page Top

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