What is the security strength of McEliece variants?
Further search at this Round 3 Official Comment Newsgroup - found here
https://csrc.nist.gov/CSRC/media/Projects/post-quantum-cryptography/documents/round-3/official-comments/Classic-McEliece-round3-official-comment.pdf
https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/g/pqc-forum/c/EiwxGnfQgec?pli=1
OP (Kirk Fleming) sets up these estimates

mceliece-3488-064   143
mceliece-4608-096   207
mceliece-6688-128   272
mceliece-6960-119   272
mceliece-8192-128   272

DJ Bernstein (from the submitters - the Classic McEliece team) doesn't appear to be too enthusiastic about those security strength bits.