OK. Let's see how long this transparency lasts.
About 12 hours....
China backtracks on comments questioning effectiveness of local vaccines
2 hours ago
Chinese state media have rushed to defend their locally developed coronavirus vaccines, with a senior health official insisting it was “misunderstood” when he appeared to question the effectiveness of the shots.
Gao Fu, head of the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention, told a conference over the weekend that the government was
considering mix vaccines and vary dosage regimens to cope with “low efficacy” of existing injections. It was a rare official recognition of the difficulties faced by China’s immunization program.
But on Sunday, Gao said his words were “taken out of context” and misunderstood.
“After talking about different vaccination strategies, I brought up the issue of vaccine protection rates and expressed my thoughts on how we can optimize our delivery process,” he told Guancha.com, a Chinese media.
Chinese vaccines, which Beijing has pledged to deliver to dozens of countries, have been criticized for their varying rates of effectiveness. Some barely exceed the World Health Organization’s 50% effectiveness threshold, while developers have been slow to release data from Phase 3 trials.