The Minister of Health, Óscar Ugarte, reported that the efficacy of Beijing vaccine it is 64.7% when lung lesions are found. He said that he has a 91% level of protection against the eventuality of requiring hospitalization.
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He explained that, in the case, they want to demonstrate the effect of the vaccine in the conditions of a person who saturates below 93%. “How much does this study find in preliminary condition? 62.7% ”, he added.
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“The same preliminary information says that in the other condition that we want to measure the efficacy, which is when abnormal lesions are found at the lung level, it is that the vaccine protects against this eventuality by 64.7%,” he explained.
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Ugarte pointed out that this measures the level of protection against the eventuality of requiring hospitalization for the disease, since there the effectiveness is even greater, that is, 91% protection against the eventuality of having the disease and requiring hospitalization.
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“Faced with the risk of dying, the effectiveness that protects people is 100%,” he highlighted before the virtual session of Congress.
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