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Chinese vaccines doing well despite having to fight Western propaganda war against them.
Otherwise, the 5 billion doses may even go up to 10 billion, saving more lives.
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Chinese vaccines doing well despite having to fight Western propaganda war against them.
Otherwise, the 5 billion doses may even go up to 10 billion, saving more lives.
Yeah. That Indonesian report on the Sinovac vaccine is really a shocker to the world. Now I see some west media are grudgingly getting along. If this trend of confirmation on both Sinovac and Sinopharm continues, I am pretty sure that it is going to be China that practically vaccinates the world after everything said and done. Never though this day would come so soon so dramatic. It is the capacity that counts in a long "war" of attrition, period.
So far, I've seen announcements of:
Sinopharm - 5 billion
Sinovac - 2 billion
CanSino - 0.5 billion
That's capacity of 7.5 Billion doses per year.
Or 4 Billion individuals if you account for 1 or 2 doses.
Then there's the contracts for 280 million doses of Sputnik made in China.
And Fosun making 1 billion doses with BioNTech.
Plus the other Chinese vaccines in development.
That should cover all 5.5 billion people on the planet - if you exclude the USA, Europe and India who are unlikely to use Chinese vaccines for political reasons.
Last year, I fully expected China to vaccinate the world.
Around the summer, I did a post which outlined how China would likely be the fastest to develop vaccines, deploy them and also ramp up capacity.
It turned out that Chinese Phase 3 trials were slowed down because China had completely eliminated COVID and they had to test in foreign countries with raging outbreaks.
China did turn out to be the fastest to start vaccinating millions of people. But again, the lack of COVID inside China meant there was no rush to expand production.
And what other country in the world has the capacity and will to ramp up production like China?
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Inactivated viral vaccines seems to show effectiveness. But mRNA based vaccines of Pfizer and Moderna were found wanting.
So China will be producing vaccines for the whole world, excluding India and the US.
Honestly this would be hilarious if not for the nature of the subject matter.
So far, we're looking at Chinese companies ramping up vaccine production capacity for over 5 billion people.
There are only 7.8 billion people in the world, so there's no way Pfizer or Moderna will be able to restrict supply to the world.
That will drive prices down and make vaccines available to all a lot faster.
And it's telling that Joseph Stiglitz couldn't get this piece published in the New York Times or Wall Street Journal.
That is where he frequently writes.
There are only 7.8 billion people in the world, so there's no way Pfizer or Moderna will be able to restrict supply to the world.
That will drive prices down and make vaccines available to all a lot faster.
And it's telling that Joseph Stiglitz couldn't get this piece published in the New York Times or Wall Street Journal.
That is where he frequently writes.