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Foreign vaccines would help. If they were prepared to abandon zero-Covid then admitting that Sinovac isn't very effective shouldn't be a bridge too far.
by tjpnz 4y ago
Foreign vaccines would help. If they were prepared to abandon zero-Covid then admitting that Sinovac isn't very effective shouldn't be a bridge too far.
- alamortsubite 4y agoMaybe if they could get them into people's arms today, but it's almost certainly too late for that. The crime is that they've been sitting on this solution for two years.
- amluto 4y agoActual vaccine effectiveness numbers against modern variants are hard to find, and anything from outside China comes from a population in which most people have been infected. The actual effectiveness of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, if hypothetically given in China a month ago, might be quite low.
- d_e_solomon 4y agoBioNTech has been approved for foreigners but that's going to be too little, too late. China has a higher vaccination rate than the US but not in the elderly which is most at risk from Covid.