Let's forget the legal issues for a second. Some of the DPP politicians are really ignorant, arrogant, and dogmatic. They were trying to find out if China was involved in the manufacturing of the Pfizer vaccine as early as November, 2000. If China is involved, then the vaccine is obvious not good enough for Taiwan! Taiwan should have acted earlier to secure enough vaccines just in case for a second wave like what happens now. I don't know if their inaction was somehow caused by the fact that they were vastly overestimated by the western media in the first wave.Lol so Taiwan claims that China is denying them the BioNtech vaccine.
But if you read between the lines it’s clear that BioNtech sold the rights to manufacture and distribute in Greater China to Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical. But instead of going to SFP Taiwan went direct to BioNtech. Sales guy at BioNtech went sure, but when he went to get approval for the sale, management went NOPE. Their legal contract states that Taiwan needs to buy from their contracted distributor in Greater China, SFP. So now Taiwan is throwing a hissy fit and trying to make it seem like it was China denying them the vaccine due to political reasons.
Taiwan will not buy made-in-China version of Pfizer vaccine: CECC head
Chen Shih-chung says Taiwan will verify that Pfizer coronavirus vaccine is not made in China before importing it
It is interesting that Dimas Covas said:It is good that Sinovac vaccine still works on new variants.
[Edit] Just saw that @manqiangrexue has asked my question. Please continue in that thread.There is a big caveat/myth in the genomic similarities among different organisms. Pigs, monkeys and human share 95-98% of their working genome. “Working” genome means protein-coding genomic sequences. But this part of genome comprises only 1 - 1.5% of our whole genome. Yes, that’s right. Single digit percentage. Other non-protein coding sequences don’t code any working proteins, but play important roles in regulating how those proteins are translated. Different organisms have drastically different non-coding sequences. These differences mainly contribute to the apparent differences in human, pigs and monkeys.
The “96%” similarity between SARS-CoV-2 and the local coronavirus is shared among the entire genomic sequence, including both protein-coding and non-coding sequences. That’s a striking similarity.
Let's forget the legal issues for a second. Some of the DPP politicians are really ignorant, arrogant, and dogmatic. They were trying to find out if China was involved in the manufacturing of the Pfizer vaccine as early as November, 2000. If China is involved, then the vaccine is obvious not good enough for Taiwan! Taiwan should have acted earlier to secure enough vaccines just in case for a second wave like what happens now. I don't know if their inaction was somehow caused by the fact that they were vastly overestimated by the western media in the first wave.
haha, now British youths are injecting themselves with live virus to verify an unreliable vaccine that is proven useless to new variant to prove their loyalty to her Majesty the Queen and Prime Minister the Clown.You don't need to imagine, this was posted on the thread last year
Why would other people accept AstraZeneca vaccine when they know it is useless against certain variant which may become dominiant all over the world in a few months?Germany people don't like AstraZeneca vaccine. Maybe they should send these unused vaccines to the Balkan.
Many countries don't have any other vaccines so AstraZeneca vaccines are still being used in many countries and WHO also recommended to do so. Even though it might not be such a good idea.Why would other people accept AstraZeneca vaccine when they know it is useless against certain variant which may become dominiant all over the world in a few months?