Pfizer has been sued by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who on Thursday accused the drugmaker of misrepresenting the efficacy of its widely-used COVID-19 vaccine.

This all revolves around conservatives focusing on ARR instead of RRR numbers on vaccine efficacy. Here’s a description I found of the difference from another article:

Let’s say a study enrolled 20,000 patients into the control group and 20,000 in the vaccine group. In that study, 200 people in the control group got sick and 0 people in the vaccine group got sick. Even though the vaccine efficacy would be a whopping 100%, the ARR would show that vaccines reduce the absolute risk by just 1% (200/20,000= 1%). For the ARR to increase to 20% in our example study with a vaccine with 100% efficacy, 4,000 of the 20,000 people in the control group would have to get sick (4,000/20,000= 20%).

      • redditron_2000_4@lemmy.world
        8·
        11 months ago

        The red vs blue ratio is really close in Texas. If all the liberals leave then the state is lost to the rural conservatives. I’d rather stay and fight for a better future.

      • mateomaui@reddthat.comEnglish
        202·
        11 months ago

        Paxton said the claim was based on only two months of clinical trial data

        I love how he says this as if most of the country world wasn’t desperately waiting for something to come out as soon as possible, especially Republicans who were in their own tug of war of trying to cast it all as nonsense while wanting it available to get all these lazy people back to work in the office. They had to provide efficacy estimates. What the hell did he expect them to do?

  • the_q@lemmy.world
    32·
    11 months ago

    Texas as a whole really doesn’t understand a lot of things. I’m not saying they’re stupid, but I’m also not not saying it.

  • Chozo@kbin.social
    23·
    11 months ago

    I hate that my tax dollars keep funding these jackasses. Can’t wait to move out of this failed state.

  • takeda@lemmy.world
    22·
    11 months ago

    And the magical thing about all of this is that even if the court takes the case and rules that there was no wrong doing. They will just chalk it up that it is because Gates, Soros, Rockefeller control the government and they never expected the trial to be “fair”.

    No matter what the outcome will be, it will prove that they were right in their eyes.