Quote Originally Posted by xsnaggle View Post
The placebo group is not relavent to the question.
They can say that people in the olacebo group got severe syptoms, I agree. But that is not what they said.
They said as I quoted: It is 85% effective in peventing severe symptoms. If sypmtoms are prevented how can they say that a person would, without the vaccine have had severe symptoms? It's nonsense.
It isn't nonsense it's how it's always done

It's a statistic against the placebo group not an actual figure, that's how efficacy is calculated at least until they have psychics in the teams assessing it.

If you want to know more about it read this - https://www.thelancet.com/journals/l...623-4/fulltext