efficacy
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Their efficacy has created a high bar for treatments that have followed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
There’s a rich conversation about the efficacy of influential figures such as gangster Casper Holstein and writer Carl Van Vechten, who helped finance and support, respectively, members of the Harlem Renaissance and their work.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026
"This lets us speak about safety and efficacy with real confidence," Dr. Fleckenstein said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
At the same time, he is ambivalent about the efficacy of outright bans on school devices.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Boaz, meanwhile, wielded the broom with surprising efficacy.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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For the next pandemic, if we have certain vaccines with starting efficacies, we can predict the minimum proportion we need to vaccinate to achieve vaccine-induced herd immunity.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 6, 2023
To get a little technical, the Pfizer data, in particular, had wide confidence intervals—basically, the efficacies are more like pretty good estimates, than numbers that the scientists are really certain of.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2022
That would make it still well above the 50% threshold needed for FDA authorization, but would pale in comparison to the 90-plus efficacies of other COVID-19 vaccines.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 25, 2021
Further tests would be needed to judge how much the 2P mutation contributes to the overall efficacies of the frontrunner vaccines.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 31, 2020
The benignant efficacies of Concealment," cries our Professor, "who shall speak or sing?
From Sartor Resartus: the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh by Thomas Carlyle
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