China acknowledges Sinovac vaccine not very effective

[Queenie O.]

On 4/12/2021 at 9:27 AM, Old55 said:

China admits their vaccine is not effective. Although the ccp don't give exact numbers it's said to be around 50% effective.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/11/world/china-covid-vaccine.html

 

 

A senior Chinese official said that the country’s vaccines may need to be administered in greater doses or in concert with other shots because of their low overall effectiveness.

The comments on Saturday by Gao Fu, the director of China’s disease control center, suggest that China and more than 60 countries that have approved Chinese vaccines could need to adjust their distribution programs. The widespread distribution of Chinese vaccines means that any changes could potentially affect hundreds of millions of people or more.

Possible steps to boost effectiveness of Chinese vaccines include changing the amount of vaccine given, the number of shots, the time between shots or the type of vaccines given, Mr. Gao said.

He also praised the possibilities offered by messenger RNA. That technology is used in the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines but not in any of the vaccines thus far approved in China.

In an interview on Sunday with the Communist Party-run Global Times newspaper, Mr. Gao said his earlier comments had been misunderstood, and that discussion of how to improve the effectiveness of vaccines should be a universal question.

“The protection rates of all vaccines in the world are sometimes high, and sometimes low,” he said. “How to improve their efficacy is a question that needs to be considered by scientists around the world.”

Officials in Brazil said in January that the efficacy rate for the CoronaVac vaccine from the Beijing-based company Sinovac was just over 50 percent. By comparison, Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech were found to be 90 percent effective in real world conditions, researchers said last month.

Last month the distributor in the United Arab Emirates of vaccines from China’s Sinopharm said it was offering a third dose in addition to the standard two-dose regimen for a “very small number” of people who were “not really responsive” to the vaccine.

 

Well Old55,  

That may well be true, but the Philippines has always been lucky for me, and I'd rather be living and taking my chances here in Cebu, than to be comfortably back in the US any day.

[Old55]

2 minutes ago, Queenie O. said:

Well Old55,  

That may well be true, but the Philippines has always been lucky for me, and I'd rather be living and taking my chances here in Cebu, than to be comfortably back in the US any day.

Pleased you are happy in Cebu Queenie.

I wish we could visit this year we miss our friends and family there. 

[Mike J]

4 hours ago, Old55 said:

Pleased you are happy in Cebu Queenie.

I wish we could visit this year we miss our friends and family there. 

We will keep the light on for you. 

[Gandang Smile]

5 hours ago, Queenie O. said:

Well Old55,  

That may well be true, but the Philippines has always been lucky for me, and I'd rather be living and taking my chances here in Cebu, than to be comfortably back in the US any day.

 I never exactly rooted for China but, with the current state of affairs, if it really comes to getting the jab, I'd rather get one developed in a Chinese or Russian publicly-funded research institution, than one coming from one of the Big Pharma.

[Jack D]

3 hours ago, Gandang Smile said:

 I never exactly rooted for China but, with the current state of affairs, if it really comes to getting the jab, I'd rather get one developed in a Chinese or Russian publicly-funded research institution, than one coming from one of the Big Pharma.

For Billion-Dollar COVID Vaccines, Basic Government-Funded Science Laid the Groundwork

Much of the pioneering work on mRNA vaccines was done with government money, though drugmakers could walk away with big profits

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/for-billion-dollar-covid-vaccines-basic-government-funded-science-laid-the-groundwork/

Edited April 13, 2021 by Jack D

[Gator]

On 4/12/2021 at 2:56 PM, Jack D said:

Probably the only way to unload it, since selling it will really be a hard sell now. 

Or since the efficacy is only 50% then they’ll sell it at the mall for half the price. We all know how much ppl are suckers for a BOGO! 🤣

[scott h]

2 hours ago, Gator said:

half the price.