China is vaccinating the world ... with vaccines that don't work well

[PeteS in CA]

China is vaccinating the world ... with vaccines that don't work well

https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2021/06/05/china-is-vaccinating-the-world-with-vaccines-that-dont-work-well-n394753

China’s international vaccination effort is part PR and part diplomacy. Having set the viral forest fire that’s burned across six continents, the Chinese government hoped to rebuild some goodwill by making its vaccines available to developing countries. And if those countries end up being grateful enough to assist China in extending its influence abroad, either by providing access to military bases or striking trade deals or what have you, so much the better.

But that goodwill is contingent upon the vaccines providing meaningful protection from the virus. What if they don’t?

You’ve seen Israel’s case curve, with its steep decline down to almost zero, many times now. (The seven-day average stands at 15 cases today in a nation of nine million people.) Israel used Pfizer’s vaccine, one of two cutting-edge mRNA products that have proved to be miraculously effective against the coronavirus. Compare that to the case curves in four countries that are using one of China’s two vaccines, Sinopharm and Sinovac. Those products were developed via a traditional method in which the inactivated virus is injected into people to spur an immune response.
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All four of those countries have exceptionally high rates of vaccination. The surges they’re seeing aren’t a matter of the virus tearing through a population that’s still largely unimmunized, as happened in India. The Seychelles, a small island country, has also been battling an outbreak lately despite having vaccinated a greater percentage of its population than any nation on Earth. More than half of their people received — you guessed it — Sinopharm.

Bahrain, Chile, UAE, Uruguay. Because China is untransparent and places national pride above being truthful, and because they put up a major PR fuss when called into question, this claim that its two vaccines are not very effective is based on circumstantial evidence in a complex environment.