Hundreds of vaccinated Indonesian health workers get Covid-19,dozens in hospital
reuters.com
reuters.com
This vaccine is known to be less effective but omitting it from the title sure makes for a headline.
>Kudus, which has about 5,000 healthcare workers, is battling an outbreak believed to be driven by the more transmissible Delta variant, which has raised its bed occupancy rates above 90%.
With each variant, nature gets another shot at obsoleting all existing vaccinations.
Sinovac does not have usable effectiveness data, due to the manner and place of its development. It is well-known internationally to be less effective than many other options.
> With each variant, nature gets another shot at obsoleting all existing vaccinations.
Please don't hyperbolize. "Obsoleting all existing vaccinations" means a new disease, not a variant. And every mutation is a tradeoff: if COVID-19 "starts over", it may well be much less virulent: less transmissible, or less deadly, or both.
I wonder how many deals the Chinese got for pushing this useless vaccine via diplomacy.
I would call that nearly useless. If they are ignoring these poor statistics and just rolling back to pre-covid rules I'd say its worse than nearly useless.
>"The data shows they have the Delta variant (in Kudus) so it is no surprise that the breakthrough infection is higher than before, because, as we know, the majority of healthcare workers in Indonesia got Sinovac, and we still don’t know yet how effective it is in the real world against the Delta variant,” said Dicky Budiman, an epidemiologist at Australia's Griffith University.
One key unknown is whether the infection of those health workers was better/worse than the normal response post vaccine.
Breath through infections are expected. Vaccination isn't fool proof. The primary goal is herd immunity at the community level, and that those who do have a break through, their experience isn't nearly as bad without the vaccine.
mRNA vaccines have the instructions to build only the spike protein once inside the body, which is supposed to mutate less as it's a crucial protein for the virus to function properly.
> Sinovac-CoronaVac is an inactivated virus vaccine and it is expected to have less protection against mutations.
And you should see why its surprising the original title is a clickbait.