[supergirl]

there are many vaccines in trials. why is this one getting so much attention? american PR machine hard at work? sounds like they already have the movie plot perfected but they haven't published an article yet

[fabian2k]

It's the first vaccine with preliminary results from a phase III trial. And the initial news are very good with 90% efficacy.

[supergirl]

the first preliminary stage 3 results are actually from the sinovac vaccine: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-sinova.... however they didn't disclose the efficacy, but only the side effects.

general efficacy is not everything anyway. according to https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3... the best vaccine is one that prevents serious disease and death, which can't be shown in stage 3.

[klmadfejno]

Google suggests they hadn't started, or were only just getting permission to start their phase 3 trials by the time of that article.

Either way. It's a matter of semantics to say the sinovac vaccine had results first if it doesn't say anything about efficacy. What is being discussed is efficacy results.