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Views and opinions expressed are solely my own. Background With COVID-19 vaccines now being widely available in the U.S., I’ve seen various interpretations of vaccine efficacy rates. As one example, the paper disseminating the study on the efficacy of BioNTech and Pfizer’s vaccine BNT162b2 states in its results section:

Views and opinions expressed are solely my own. Background I hold a bachelor’s degree in mathematics (with a statistics emphasis) and a master’s degree in statistics. Statistical education, on its own, is insufficient to address modern data needs.

Views and opinions expressed are solely my own. Background Last week, I joined a Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) campaign. For those of you who are not familiar with D&D, part of the process is that each player will create their own character who will have abilities and ability scores attributed to each ability.

Views and opinions expressed are solely my own. Introduction In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S., news around an article in medRxiv caught the attention of many of my peers, generating headlines such as: