Pretty sure there can be. The real issue is that China is now going full speed on her own domestic vaccinations which means more vaccines are going to be allocated to the home front. You don't want to be in the Indian situation where you have exported away too much of your own vaccines and not enough for the home population. The Indian variant is giving quite a scare and China's top epidemiologist wants the population vaccinated, as you need to be steps ahead and proactive for any eventuality.
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Pretty sure there can be. The real issue is that China is now going full speed on her own domestic vaccinations which means more vaccines are going to be allocated to the home front. You don't want to be in the Indian situation where you have exported away too much of your own vaccines and not enough for the home population. The Indian variant is giving quite a scare and China's top epidemiologist wants the population vaccinated, as you need to be steps ahead and proactive for any eventuality.
I expect these doctors and scientists to lobby for a full investigation and audit of Fort Detrick as well as other US owned bio warfare facilities around the world especially the ones in the former soviet union.
Otherwise, this is simply another pathetic attempt by the anglos to revive the covid bioweapon conspiracy theory.
China isnt likely to face the same situation as India, since its already vaccinated close to 400 million shots. Although not anywhere close to herd immunity, it does reduce the speed of the virus spread. It also take time (~ 2 months) before any covid outbreak spreads like wildfire. I'm thinking that if China can hold COVID at its current levels until mid-July, this will allow China to have vaccinated close to .9-1 billion doses. Even if China loosens control by then, in theory COVID would only become endemic by September. By then however, China is likely to have vaccinated another 500-600 million doses, so we would be in effective herd immunity. Best way to think about it is we are currently close to where the US and Israel were in mid-march.
We dont need herd immunity to beat COVID at this point. As long as we keep up vaccinations, we can bend Ro to under 1 by relatively light measures without a complete lockdown.
Do we really need a 4th inactivated vaccine at this point? I'm surprised other countries would want to participate in additional trials for chinese inactivated vaccines when there is already sinopharm or sinovac. I think all efforts should focus on stermina and walvax mrna vaccines now.
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Brigadier
Why isn't there any new vaccine specifically formulated to deal with the variants?
From the Bloomberg interview of the Sinovac CEO, they're already working on it.
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Colonel
I recall reading new findings saying 3 weeks (or more?) is much better than 2 weeks but I can't recall clearly which of the vaccines, Sinovac or Sinopharm. It may be a good idea to call back your doctor for the latest advice.
Quickie
Colonel
Although they are all inactivated vaccines, they're likely based on a different variant of the virus due to the different time and place of manufacture.