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rafterbr wrote:I am probably not the best person to be a nay sayer since I have been vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine.  However there is strong evidence having been vaccinated with the Pfizer you will no longer be a carrier of the virus.  This means no masks in public or airplane rides.  They will advise people to still wear masks but this is a way of encouraging all people to wear masks.  When I got my shot they asked if I had received any other vaccine with the implication if I had, they would not give me a different vaccine.  The Pfizer is 95% effective, the Sinovac 50%.  The drug companies are really churning out the vaccines now and I think Pfizer or Moderna will be available to everyone in a month or two.  Even if you have to pay for it, I think the wait would be worth it.

Lady Otter Latté wrote:

The wait will not be worth it if in a month or two you’re dead or have been in ICU on a ventilator.

Mexico announced a huge bet on Chinese vaccines Tuesday, without making public any information about their efficacy.

Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said the Mexican government has signed agreements for 12 million doses of the yet-unapproved Sinopharm vaccine and increased to a total of 20 million doses its contracts for the Coronavac dose made by China’s Sinovac.

However, Ebrard’s office has repeatedly refused to answer questions about the efficacy of the Chinese shots.

Sinopharm has claimed its vaccine was 79% effective based on interim data from clinical trials, but like other Chinese firms, it has not publicly released its late-stage clinical trial data.

Experts in Hong Kong have assessed the efficacy of the Sinovac vaccine at about 51%. That shot has already been approved for use in Mexico.

The CanSino vaccine has been approved in Mexico and reportedly has an efficacy rate of around 65.7%,

Amid a dearth of public data on China’s vaccines, hesitations over their efficacy and safety are still pervasive in the countries depending on them.

Inoculations with Chinese vaccines already have begun in more than 25 countries. None of China’s three vaccine candidates used globally have publicly released their late-stage clinical trial data.

slainte39 wrote:China is not a backward country and has a tremendous infrastructure for everyone,  of their roads, high speed trains, bridges, dams, ports, as well as adequate food, clothing, and shelter for the populace.
They are into space technology and engineering, as well as, other scientific and educational advances but they are not a perfect society.... nowhere is.  The US and all other countries have some sort of defects, like poverty, racism, police misbehavior, poor infrastructure, lack of good affordable health care for everyone, and on and on.

Let he/she/the country without sin cast the first stone.