50-80% efficacy in preventing symptomatic disesase.
98-100% efficacy in preventing death.
Sinovac is an inactivated virus vaccine. Old technique, cheap, nothing special about it, it's been used in flu shots for decades. Won't eliminate the virus, but it will still protect a lot of people from serious illness/death.
It's about safe as any vaccine realistically can be, because it's a tried and tested, well known method of vaccination that we've had for a long time - exactly the kind of safety level you'd want for something you intend to roll out across entire populations.
I would have no issue if the government told me get jabbed this with every now and then for the next couple of years, because, and it still boggles my mind that I'm saying this about a Chinese vaccine against a Chinese virus that the Chinese lied about once they realised they'd failed to contain it, but I trust the safety of Sinovac.
My only complaint would be the humiliation of giving the Chinese more money to fix a problem they fucking caused.
Part of me wonders if Sinovac is just part of the placebo effect?
50-80% efficacy in preventing symptomatic disesase. 98-100% efficacy in preventing death.
Sinovac is an inactivated virus vaccine. Old technique, cheap, nothing special about it, it's been used in flu shots for decades. Won't eliminate the virus, but it will still protect a lot of people from serious illness/death.
It's about safe as any vaccine realistically can be, because it's a tried and tested, well known method of vaccination that we've had for a long time - exactly the kind of safety level you'd want for something you intend to roll out across entire populations.
I would have no issue if the government told me get jabbed this with every now and then for the next couple of years, because, and it still boggles my mind that I'm saying this about a Chinese vaccine against a Chinese virus that the Chinese lied about once they realised they'd failed to contain it, but I trust the safety of Sinovac.
My only complaint would be the humiliation of giving the Chinese more money to fix a problem they fucking caused.