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Chinese health official says effectiveness of local coronavirus vaccines is low – ABC News
Beijing has distributed hundreds of millions of doses in other countries while also trying to promote doubt about the effectiveness of Western vaccines.
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 give them a boost.
Key points:
- The Chinese Center for Disease Control says locally developed vaccines “don’t have very high protection rates”
- Brazilian researchers found Sinovac’s effectiveness in preventing symptomatic infections was as low as 50.4 per cent
- Experts say mixing vaccines, or sequential immunisation,…
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