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| Official says 'Made In China' vaccines not very powerful, have low effectiveness |
| 2021-04-11 |
| [Ay Pee] BEIJING — In a rare admission of the weakness of Chinese coronavirus vaccines, the country’s top disease control official says their effectiveness is low and the government is considering mixing them to get a boost. "One from Column A and one from Column B. You also get General Tso's Chicken and Eggroll" Chinese vaccines "don’t have very high protection rates," said the director of the China Centers for Disease Control, Gao Fu, at a conference Saturday in the southwestern city of Chengdu. Beijing has distributed hundreds of millions of doses abroad while trying to promote doubt about the effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine made using the previously experimental messenger RNA, or mRNA, process. "It’s now under formal consideration whether we should use different vaccines from different technical lines for the immunization process," Gao said. Officials at a news conference Sunday didn’t respond directly to questions about Gao’s comment or possible changes in official plans. But another CDC official said developers are working on mRNA-based vaccines. Experts say mixing vaccines, or sequential immunization, might boost effectiveness. Researchers in Britain are studying a possible combination of Pfizer-BioNTech and the traditional AstraZeneca vaccine. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #6 ...and then you're hungry an hour later! |
| Posted by: Raj 2021-04-11 19:54 |
| #5 People in Hong Kong are screaming out for Pfizer or Moderna. They do NOT want the ChiCom jab. Anything but Sinovac. I also read somewhere that the PRC was going to require the Sinovac shot for travel to the Mainland. I suspect the ChiComs will soon "miraculously" make a huge breakthrough in mRNA technology and roll out a vaccine (after stealing the recipe...). |
| Posted by: Bangkok Billy 2021-04-11 18:57 |
| #4 I read that something like 60% of Chinese officials are refusing the vaccine, so possibly even the lower levels of the ruling class are not getting the good stuff over there. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2021-04-11 18:08 |
| #3 They can make it but sell something inferior to everyone else. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-04-11 15:06 |
| #2 They can make the poison but not the antidote? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-04-11 12:24 |
| #1 everything else from china is shit, why wouldn't their vaccine be? |
| Posted by: Chris 2021-04-11 10:22 |