Post by account_disabled on Mar 13, 2024 5:01:57 GMT -5
The announcement by Pfizer and BioNTech that their vaccine against the Covid-19 coronavirus presents preliminary results of 90% efficacy has triggered the most optimistic expectations in the world. The stock markets have begun to position themselves. The pharmaceutical industry and the health technostructure calculate what they will put into their pockets. Politicians find a foothold to secure their future and to prolong confidence in their measures. Minister Illa announces that in May (2021) the majority of Spaniards could be vaccinated. Health professionals maintain their faith in the effectiveness of a measure, although.
There are still no publications subject to the accepted scientific standard that have provided data in this regard. And, above all, the population finds a way of hope to avoid the disease and get AOL Email List out of this anomalous situation forced by the severity of the pandemic as soon as possible. With announcements like this: 90% effectiveness of a care measure, a large part of the available therapeutic arsenal has been built. Simple advertisements like this have managed to introduce thousands of products into the pharmaceutical market whose effectiveness is often much lower than that promoted, if we stick to the balance between benefits, risks, drawbacks and costs of the product. Unfortunately, the health administration and professionals in the sector, especially doctors, have not known how or have not wanted to read with the depth required the results of the studies on which the accepted therapies are based, many of them are part of the catalog of medicines.
Prescription that we all pay for. Pending the publication of more definitive results, we can say that the announced vaccine is not as wonderful as it seems. The relative risk value is often used to promote a product; In this case it would be the probability of acquiring the disease among the vaccinated compared to the unvaccinated, when what matters is the probability that a vaccinated person will acquire the disease, the absolute risk. It is also interesting to know the number of patients to treat to achieve a benefit (NNT). The great media noise and the supposed great health benefits of this vaccine do not seem justified, which are for the pharmaceutical company's income statement. With the Pfizer vaccine data provided by the company and which has not been confirmed by other independent studies.
There are still no publications subject to the accepted scientific standard that have provided data in this regard. And, above all, the population finds a way of hope to avoid the disease and get AOL Email List out of this anomalous situation forced by the severity of the pandemic as soon as possible. With announcements like this: 90% effectiveness of a care measure, a large part of the available therapeutic arsenal has been built. Simple advertisements like this have managed to introduce thousands of products into the pharmaceutical market whose effectiveness is often much lower than that promoted, if we stick to the balance between benefits, risks, drawbacks and costs of the product. Unfortunately, the health administration and professionals in the sector, especially doctors, have not known how or have not wanted to read with the depth required the results of the studies on which the accepted therapies are based, many of them are part of the catalog of medicines.
Prescription that we all pay for. Pending the publication of more definitive results, we can say that the announced vaccine is not as wonderful as it seems. The relative risk value is often used to promote a product; In this case it would be the probability of acquiring the disease among the vaccinated compared to the unvaccinated, when what matters is the probability that a vaccinated person will acquire the disease, the absolute risk. It is also interesting to know the number of patients to treat to achieve a benefit (NNT). The great media noise and the supposed great health benefits of this vaccine do not seem justified, which are for the pharmaceutical company's income statement. With the Pfizer vaccine data provided by the company and which has not been confirmed by other independent studies.