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Despite everyone from airlines to governments demanding compulsory vaccination against the Wuhan plague, things aren’t going too swimmingly for the vaccines themselves.
Dozens of deaths related to Pfizer’s COVID vaccine have been reported. Six people died in late-stage trials of the vaccine in the US, and now some 30 people have died in Norway, and another ten in Germany. While it’s true that millions of doses of the vaccine have already been rolled out, putting the deaths attributed to it into some perspective, it’s still not doing much to improve public confidence.
Nor is obvious hypocrisy from public health authorities helping much. The deaths from the vaccine have been hand-waved away as “only affecting old, frail people”, which again, is true – but old, frail people are also the vast bulk of deaths attributed to the Wuhan plague. Yet, we’re sternly finger-wagged, in the latter case, that “one death is one too many”.
Meanwhile, if people are worried about the Pfizer vaccine, they probably want to stay well away from the Chinese knock-off variety.
The COVID-19 vaccine developed by China’s Sinovac Biotech was just 50.4 per cent effective at preventing symptomatic infections in a Brazilian trial, researchers said on Tuesday, barely enough for regulatory approval and well below the rate announced last week.
This time, it’s not just Chinese scientists telling porky-pies around the Wuhan plague.
Several scientists and observers blasted the Butantan biomedical centre for releasing partial data just days ago that generated unrealistic expectations. The confusion may add to scepticism in Brazil about the Chinese vaccine, which President Jair Bolsonaro has criticised, questioning its “origins”[…]
Last week, the Brazilian researchers had celebrated results showing 78 per cent efficacy against “mild-to-severe” COVID-19 cases, a rate they later described as “clinical efficacy”.
They said nothing at the time about another group of “very mild” infections among those who received the vaccine that did not require clinical assistance[…]
Palacios and officials in the Sao Paulo state government, which funds Butantan, emphasised the good news that none of the volunteers inoculated with CoronaVac had to be hospitalised with COVID-19 symptoms.
The Age
Neither do the vast bulk of people infected with the Wuhan virus, yet every single one of them is scrupulously added to the “daily infection rate” figures used to try and scare us silly.
While much of the scare campaign around the vaccines seems over-exaggerated, not to say opportunistic from hardcore anti-vaxxers, it doesn’t help public confidence at all when governments and health bureaucracies lie and peddle obvious double-standards.
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