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<\/div>\nDr. Anthony Fauci on Sunday warned Americans against holding out for a particular COVID-19 vaccine \u2014 saying all three on the market are \u201csafe and efficacious.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got to get away from that chain of thought. The only way you really know the difference between vaccines is by comparing them head to head,\u201d Fauci\u00a0told ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos on \u201cThis Week.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWe have three highly efficacious vaccines that are safe and efficacious. That\u2019s the bottom line.\u201d<\/p>\n The White House chief medical adviser said that the newest option \u2014 the vaccine from Johnson & Johnson \u2014 has features that \u201cwe really care about that are important,\u201d despite showing lower efficacy than the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s got greater than 85 percent efficacy [preventing] severe disease and critical disease, and there were no deaths or hospitalizations in any of the countries that were tested,\u201d Fauci said.<\/p>\n Comparing the J&J vaccine to the other two authorized is complicated since their trials had important differences, Fauci has said.<\/p>\n J&J\u2019s trial showed an efficacy of around 66 percent against moderate-to-severe COVID-19, while the ones for Pfizer and Moderna focused on mild-to-moderate sickness and showed efficacy of around 95 percent percent in preventing illness.<\/p>\n The J&J trial was also conducted later and in regions where highly-contagious new variants were circulating.<\/p>\n \u201cI think we need to pull away from this comparing and parsing numbers until you compare them head to head. Just be really grateful that we have three really efficacious vaccines,\u201d Fauci said.<\/p>\n