[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.