You’re again comparing a tiny country with extensive testing capacity and vaccination, with a one billion+ person country with 45% test positivity in some states and a mostly unvaccinated population. Even what a “confirmed case” means in Bahrain is not the same thing as India.
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OK. But compare it to any other country, and it's still cause for concern.
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The concern is that the Sinopharm vaccine is considerably less effective than other vaccines. Remember, this is a vaccine that we never got really good data on to begin with.https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/exclusive-who-experts-voice-very-low-confidence-some-sinopharm-covid-19-vaccine-2021-05-05/ …
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If it turns out that Sinopharm is substantially less effective than other vaccines, that should affect countries' decision of which vaccine to purchase, and it should make exporting mRNA vaccines a more urgent priority for the U.S.
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Replying to @Noahpinion @zeynep
mRNA, but also J&J, Novavax, and AstraZeneca - all seem to provide substantially more protection against the new variants than Sinopharm. I'm curious about Sputnik and the Indian Covaxin.
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Inactivated virus vaccine like Covaxin inherently more protective against all emerging variants with it's whole virion approach targeting all virus proteins. One and done. Or at least two shots, a booster months later and possibly done.
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This makes no sense. Sputnik is viral vector.
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Fair. I really don't know enough here. The thread you linked was great, btw. Amazing that mRNA performs so well.
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Yes, incredibly well, and probably the best among all that we have even after a single dose perhaps even including our officially one-dose vaccine, J&J, but spectacular after the booster. Harder to scale up, but would be fantastic if we could—but requires leadership and money.
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