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TexasTowelie

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Mon Apr 12, 2021, 05:32 AM Apr 2021

Top official admits Chinese vaccines have low effectiveness

BEIJING (AP) — In a rare admission of the weakness of Chinese coronavirus vaccines, the country's top disease control official says their effectiveness is low and the government is considering mixing them to get a boost.

Chinese vaccines “don’t have very high protection rates,” said the director of the China Centers for Disease Control, Gao Fu, at a conference Saturday in the southwestern city of Chengdu.

Beijing has distributed hundreds of millions of doses abroad while trying to promote doubt about the effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine made using the previously experimental messenger RNA, or mRNA, process.

“It’s now under formal consideration whether we should use different vaccines from different technical lines for the immunization process,” Gao said.

Read more: https://lasvegassun.com/news/2021/apr/12/top-official-admits-chinese-vaccines-have-low-effe/

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Top official admits Chinese vaccines have low effectiveness (Original Post) TexasTowelie Apr 2021 OP
What a f'd up country. Rustyeye77 Apr 2021 #1
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