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Vaccine efficacy v. effectiveness — and what it all means

Sam Baker | Sophia Wagner
November 26, 2020

What's the difference between a vaccine's efficacy and effectiveness? And how do the recent vaccine candidates from Moderna, AstraZeneca, Pfizer and BioNTech stack up compared to existing vaccines for polio, measles and other diseases?

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