Unless public health measures are imposed and executed with an iron fist and with military precision, people seem to be averse to paying any heed and in fact are happy to disregard and disavow the government’s plea for adherence to prescribed public health measures. Such public health measures have been designed to mitigate the risk, slow down, and reduce transmission, prevent infliction by the virus, and save human lives. In this context, let me take this privilege, clearing the controversy on some of the figures declared in the press release on Oxford vaccine results recently. In the Oxford vaccine phase III trial, half of the subjects received placebos and the other half the vaccine, selected at random, twice at a gap of a month. The larger group that received two doses of the same volume of the vaccine had an efficacy of 62%.

Source: Dhaka Tribune December 01, 2020 19:41 UTC