Figure 1.
Efficacy of Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines against all infection, symptomatic disease and severe disease, derived from published studies and US FDA briefing documents [3,4,6,22–24]. (*) During the first 14 days following the first dose of vaccines, there was no statistically significant difference between the protection in the vaccinated and unvaccinated cohorts. (#) Conservatively assumed to be the same as efficacy against infection during the preceding 14 days (prior to the second dose). (†) Conservatively assumed to be the same as efficacy against severe disease during the preceding 14 days (prior to the second dose). (§) Assumed to be the same as efficacy against symptomatic COVID-19.