efficacy

“Another thing about emphasizing the efficacy of youthful endeavor in changing the world is the riff of the song was written by Roman,” Morello explained.

From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026

California’s Government Operations Agency would issue recommendations about each proposal’s technical feasibility and potential efficacy within two months, according to the order.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

At the same time, he is ambivalent about the efficacy of outright bans on school devices.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

However, no large-scale research has yet been conducted on its safety and efficacy, and there are concerns over purity and contaminated supplies.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

Modern trials of the efficacy of therapies depend on the idea that an effective therapy must perform better than a placebo.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

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

The believer in these processes thinks that certain acts possess particular efficacies beyond those evident to his observation and reason; and that peculiar malignities are to be expected as the consequence of certain other acts.

From Applied Eugenics by Paul Popenoe