efficacies

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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

Still, the vaccines, shown in clinical trials to have efficacies of up to 95% against symptomatic disease, have finally given the world the prospect of an escape from COVID-19’s long siege.

From Science Magazine • Feb. 16, 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

Along these lines, computational studies have shown that ligands with different efficacies modulate the free-energy landscape of the receptor by shifting the conformational equilibrium towards active or inactive conformations depending on their elicited physiological response.

From Nature • Feb. 13, 2013

The benignant efficacies of Concealment," cries our Professor, "who shall speak or sing?

From Sartor Resartus: the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh by Carlyle, Thomas