Vaccines are being hailed as the solution to the Covid-19 pandemic, but the vaccine trials currently underway are not designed to tell us if they will save lives, reports Peter Doshi, associate editor at The British Medical Journal (BMJ).
Several covid-19 vaccine trials are now in their most advanced (phase III) stage, but what will it mean exactly when a vaccine is declared “effective”?
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