One Chinese vaccine and 4 efficacy rates confuse experts, raise doubts
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A medical worker shows a syringe with the Sinovac Biotech vaccine against the COVID-19 coronavirus at a healthcare centre.
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Uncertainty swirls over the efficacy of the leading Chinese shot, for which four different protection rate numbers have been released in recent weeks
Overlapping efficacy data is not unprecedented in the Covid-19 vaccine race
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Days before a global rollout kicks off with the President of Indonesia receiving the Sinovac Biotech Ltd. vaccine on live television, uncertainty swirls over the efficacy of the leading Chinese shot, for which four different protection rate numbers have been released in recent weeks.
China Covid Shot Has 4 Wildly Different Efficacy Rates, Fuels Skepticism China Covid Shot Has 4 Wildly Different Efficacy Rates, Fuels Skepticism Overlapping efficacy data is not unprecedented in the Covid-19 vaccine race and all the findings are above the threshold of 50% efficacy required by regulators for approval.
A Sinovac spokesman declined to comment on the numbers from its trials in Brazil, Turkey and Indonesia
Days before a global rollout kicks off with the President of Indonesia receiving the Sinovac Biotech Ltd. vaccine on live television, uncertainty swirls over the efficacy of the leading Chinese shot, for which four different protection rate numbers have been released in recent weeks.
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Covid-19: How effective is China s Sinovac vaccine? Data confuse experts
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This story is from January 12, 2021
Covid-19: How effective is China s Sinovac vaccine? Data confuse experts
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Uncertainty swirls over the efficacy of the leading Chinese Covid vaccine Sinovac, for which four different protection rate numbers- from 65% to 91.25% - have been released in recent weeks.
BEIJING: Days before a global rollout kicks off with the President of Indonesia receiving the Sinovac Biotech Ltd vaccine on live television, uncertainty swirls over the efficacy of the leading Chinese shot, for which four different protection rate numbers have been released in recent weeks.