Originally posted by tokyoscape I know someone live in a developing country where the government has no choice but buying the vaccine from China in the early days because of the vaccine shortage. She was in an early Sinovac's test group for front-line use. Any shot is still better than no shot for those in the front-line.
Later the government own data collection raised doubts about the longer-term protection of the 2 dose from Sinovac, so now they ask those received Sinovac to come back for the third one which is Astrazeneca. She said, she feel nothing from the first 2 Sinovac shots, but the third one from Astrazeneca knock her out for 2 days.
Yup. That getting knocked on your can is a good indication the vaccine is actually doing something. If there are no temporary side effects from a vaccine, especially a covid one, I would be very suspicious of how effective the vaccine will be. As it appears that China is dealing with another pretty severe hit with covid-19, I would guess that the Sinovac vaccine is pretty useless.
I'm not sure if very limited protection is better than none, as the shot does give a person a sense of confidence that they have immunity, which can lead them to dropping their guard. The Sinovac vaccine appears to be more placebo than anything else.
As I said, the Chinese government did Canada a favor with their criminal behavior of abrogating the vaccine agreement they had with us. When they did it, I was angry because they were playing politics with the lives of Canadians, but in retrospect, I'm glad it went the way it did as it appears they are playing with people's lives with their pretend vaccine. We had to wait a few more months, but we got vaccines that worked rather than what turns out to be the typical made in China junk that has become synonymous with that nation.
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Originally posted by clackers Yes, I think all the manufacturers will need to tweak their current designs to cope with emerging threats and we'll all get a third booster. Perhaps of a different brand, for robustness - there are many trials of that going on around the world!
We are going to be playing Whack-a-Mole with this disease for a very long time, especially since every country that isn't actually holding it's citizens down and forcing vaccinations is dealing with a refusal rate of 20% to 50%. The anti vaxxers and vaccine refusers have become as big a problem as the disease, as they are variant incubators.