The CDC website clearly states farther down the page that the 95% effectiveness in infection prevention—which you’re only getting infected if the virus is transmitted to you by someone else—is based on clinical trials. That were hyperlinked to in the sentence stating the claim.

But if you don’t believe me, you can take it from a Pfizer press release itself.

Where the main finding—and what they applied for EUA for—was less cases of COVID19 in the treated group over the controls.

Primary efficacy analysis demonstrates BNT162b2 to be 95% effective against COVID-19 beginning 28 days after the first dose;170 confirmed cases of COVID-19 were evaluated, with 162 observed in the placebo group versus 8 in the vaccine group

I don’t disagree that the data and the studies claiming efficacy were absolute BS. I do disagree that transmission prevention was only pushed by the media.

The CDC website clearly states farther down the page that the 95% effectiveness in infection prevention—which you’re only getting infected if the virus is transmitted to you by someone else—is based on clinical trials. That were hyperlinked to in the sentence stating the claim.

But if you don’t believe me, you can take it from a Pfizer press release itself.

Where the main finding—and what they applied for EUA for—was less cases of COVID19 in the treated group over the controls.

I don’t disagree that the data and the studies claiming efficacy were absolute BS. I do disagree that transmission prevention was only pushed by the media.