CONTEXT: Interesting data from Chile on large scale RWR data saying the CoronaVac vaccine from China was 85% effective in preventing hospitalisations and 80% effective in preventing deaths. Couple of notes of caution on the news though. The data is from a government report, not peer reviewed research. The data is dramatically different to other published studies and the Chilean government agreed to run the study for China whilst agreeing to buy 60 million doses. I’d like to see some more independent data before we get too excited about the old-school attenuated virus vaccines from China and India.
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1. “Chile struck a deal with Sinovac to host the drug’s clinical trial and buy 60 million doses over three years.”
2. “China’s Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine is 67% effective in preventing symptomatic infection, data from a huge real-world study in Chile has shown.”
3. “The CoronaVac vaccine was 85% effective in preventing hospitalizations and 80% effective in preventing deaths, the Chilean government said in a report on Friday (April 16), calling it a “game changer”.”
4. “Chile’s stock of CoronaVac is running low, with the supply of an agreed total of 14.2 million to be fully delivered by late May.”
5. “The release of the CoronaVac data makes Chile one of a handful of countries, including Britain and Israel, that have used their rapid inoculation campaigns to gather insights into how effective vaccines are outside controlled clinical trials.”
Source URL: https://news.yahoo.com/chile-hails-game-changer-sinovac-114303694.html