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More than 20 percent of the U.S. population has been vaccinated and deaths are declining steadily even while new cases are on the rise. So far, 561,000 people have died from the coronavirus in the country.
“We will solve the issue that current vaccines don’t have very high protection rates,” Gao said in a presentation on Chinese COVID-19 vaccines and immunization strategies at a conference in the southwestern city of Chengdu. “It’s now under consideration whether we should use different vaccines from different technical lines for the immunization process.”
He also praised the benefits of mRNA vaccines, the technology behind the two vaccines seen as the most effective, Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, months after questioning whether the then-unproven method was safe.
In a message to The Associated Press, Gao said late Sunday night he was speaking about the effectiveness rates for “vaccines in the world, not particularly for China.” He did not respond to further questions about which vaccines he was referring to.
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In a rare moment of truth on Saturday, a top Chinese Communist Party official observed that China s COVID-19 vaccines aren t very effective.
Gao Fu, the head of China s Centers for Disease Control, noted that the Sinopharm and Sinovac vaccines don t have very high protection rates. Considering the barely 50% protection offered by China s Sinopharm vaccine and the roughly 80% protection offered by its Sinovac vaccine, Gao s assessment represents an obvious fact. Especially when one compares China s vaccines to the 97%+ effectiveness of the American Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines.
Gao said that it might be necessary to adapt how future doses of the Sinovac and Sinopharm vaccines are administered. Gao also abandoned the Chinese Communist Party s previous skepticism of mRNA-based vaccine processes. As the
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