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I haven't seen much press about this outside of South Africa, but our government just sold something like 1 Million AstraZenica vaccines (the first bulk order o
by tomjuggler 6y ago
I haven't seen much press about this outside of South Africa, but our government just sold something like 1 Million AstraZenica vaccines (the first bulk order of vaccines we received) because of a local study showing they were ineffective here.
Then we ordered something like 10 million of the Pfizer to start again... Now this.
And you can guess which variant of the virus is doing the rounds here!
- tomjuggler 6y agoWe sold our first million vaccines - article: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-safrica-vaccine-idUSKBN2BD0K4 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-safric...
- throwaway4good 6y agoI am curious why you (your health authorities) don't run a trial first? Why would you not expect the Pfizer vaccine to have the same variant troubles as the AZ?
- _djo_ 6y agoThere wasn’t enough time for a full new trial, especially as the first phase was meant to be a trial in and of itself and was intended for crucial high risk individuals like healthcare workers. So the country had to rely on what data was available, which showed much better effectiveness against B.1351 from the Pfizer and J&J vaccines.