Bivalent vaccines donated by Korea

[Lorry]

Half a million donated doses of bivalent vaccines are arriving today.

Another 500,000 have arrived already,  and 500,000 more will be donated by France.

This has been reported by English language print media.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

I see the BKK Post has an article today (Feb. 15) on the donation by South Korea.

 

The last sentence of the article claims there will be a total of 1.5 million doses of the bivalent vaccines donated by South Korea and France combined.

 

But no details in the article on when or how they'll be distributed in Thailand.

 

Interestingly, there was another news article just in the past week in which a MoPH official claimed Thailand plans to continue buying the original version of the Pfizer vaccine, while still evaluating whether to purchase the bivalent version.

 

The MoPH here seems to have got caught up in some of the early reports on the bivalent vaccine, based solely on antibody level testing, that raised questions about its effectiveness...

 

And since then, they seem to be ignoring the considerable and mounting real world evidence that the newer vaccine is in fact MORE effective than the original version against the currently circulating COVID strains.

 

One example:

 

 

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7206a3.htm