Is the SINOVAC hype a con

[jippytum]

The Sinovac vaccine has been hyped by the Thai governments and their favorite business partners the Chinese .

Front line workers at hospitals in Thailand where the first to receive the Sinovac vaccine . Now a leaked government document reveals hundreds of our most  most valuable nurses  doctors and health workers  who had been fully vaccinated with Sinovac have been infected with the Delta virus some of them critically ill.

Hospitals have now urged a booster dose of mRNA vaccine recently donated by the United States be given to health workers as a priority.

The government who have kept this information under wraps because this situation would indicate the much hyped Sinovac vaccine  has failed to protect those vulnerable front line health workers from the virus.This makes the governments efforts to  promote and recommend Sinovac to the Thai people over foreign produced vaccines a complete sham.

 

 

 

 

[Lorry]

It's not a sham. 

It's free enterprise. 

You are not a commie, are you? 

[Dogmatix]

It is not a con and it seemed to be reasonably effective at stopping serious illness and death up to and including alpha variant. However, no stage 3 trial data was ever publicly released and one wonders at the basis on which many countries and the WHO approved it. It is impossible to say what the efficacy has been with numbers from 50% to over 90% against the early variants being cited by various countries that have tried it. 

 

In countries like Chile where it was used widely it seems to have not been very effective in stopping transmission of early variants, although it reduced hospitalisations and disease.  Now the evidence from countries like Indonesia seems to be that it doesn't work very well against delta.  Probably the efficacy rates claimed over 90% are widely exaggerated.  It would be more realistic to assume 50-60% against the early strains.  

 

On that basis a realistic guess might be that Sinovac efficacy against delta is less then 50% and maybe in the range of 30-60%.  Anything less than 50% makes it unusable by WHO standards which is probably where we are now.    

[lopburi3]

Removed as not sure source allowed.

 

Edited July 6, 2021 by lopburi3