The New Chinese Tale of the Opposition on the …

In a new boycott chapter of the coronavirus vaccination campaign, The opposition has tried in recent days to confuse the effectiveness of Chinese vaccines applied in Chile and Argentina. In fact These are two different formulas, with different percentages of effectiveness. In Argentina, the Sinopharm, which has an efficiency of 79.34% with one dose. As, the Sinovac, applied in Chile, its protection is 3% at the first dose and reaches up to 56.5%, after the second application.

The opposition tries to confuse by referring to Chinese vaccines in general, without specifying that the one with low efficacy is Sinovac, which is inoculated in the neighboring country.

Faced with the repercussions that this new opposition operation had against the vaccination campaign, the Minister of Health of the province of Buenos Aires, Daniel Gollan, explained: “The Sinopharm vaccine is not the same as Sinovac. Chinese vaccine applied in Argentina protects much more than vaccine China is talking about today“, explained to Rock and Pop.

the Sinovac review follow from the declarations of Director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Preventions, Gao Fu, who said on Saturday that drugs from the Asian country “do not have very high rates of protection” and that there are plans to “use different vaccines from different technical lines for the process of vaccination”.

This Monday, in an interview with the Global Times, Gao Fu clarified that his words were misinterpreted and that he had simply offered scientific insight to improve effectiveness, rehashing adjusting vaccination procedures and sequential inoculation with different types of vaccines, which may be a more effective option. However, his words were used to disqualify Chinese vaccines.

“The rates of protection for all vaccines around the world are sometimes high and sometimes low. How to improve their efficiency is a question scientists around the world need to ask themselves, ”Gao explained. “In this regard, I suggest that we can consider adjusting the vaccination process, such as the number of doses and intervals, and adopt sequential vaccination with different types of vaccines,” he added.

Gollan’s denials and China’s clarification, however, do not seem to have reached the ears of the opposition, which insists on creating confusion between the effectiveness of Chinese vaccines applied in Chile and Argentina.

“The economy is suffering again and the government is not helping those who are already suffering from the second wave of the hyper recession. Explain why they did not buy the Pfizer vaccine, but 4 million from China, which immunizes half of it. Do they call taking care of Argentines? The president of Pro said on Twitter, Patricia bullrich, on Sinovac, without specifying that in Argentina the vaccines applied are those of Sinopharm.

However, Gollan noted that “the best vaccine is the one we can access. The three vaccines that are applied here are superior with a first dose (alluding to Sputnik V, Sinopharm and AstraZeneca) ”.

To date, Argentina has agreed with the Asian country on 4 million vaccines, all with the Sinopharm formula. The first two shipments, corresponding to a first contract of 1 million doses, arrived in Ezeiza at the end of February. The second contract, for 3 million doses, is not yet fully completed, since of this amount only 1 million arrived on April 1.