Which covid-19 vaccine is the most widely accepted for international travel?

The Economist ^ | 07/24/2021

[SeekAndFind]

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PERHAPS THE best litmus test of the post-pandemic world will be how much international travel returns. In 2020 international tourism arrivals fell by 74% compared with 2019, to just 380m—by contrast the fall was just 4% during the financial crisis. In recent months international travel has begun to recover. With 3.7bn vaccine doses administered around the world, many people are raring to pack their bags for a foreign trip. But not every vaccine-acquired antibody automatically allows you freely to jet off overseas.

Many governments are welcoming only recipients of certain covid-19 vaccines as visitors. This month the European Union said it would not admit visitors who were jabbed with the Covishield vaccine—even though it is identical to the AstraZeneca vaccine which is used in the EU—because it has not been approved by the EU’s medicines regulator. The government of India, where the vaccine is manufactured, threatened to retaliate. The policy may also affect Covishield recipients elsewhere in the world: 5m doses have been delivered in Britain.

Data from VisaGuide.World, a travel website, demonstrate just how variable the patchwork of vaccine recognition is. The AstraZeneca vaccine is the most widely accepted, with 119 governments recognising it—it is the most-used vaccine and it is also approved by the World Health Organisation (along with Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson and two Chinese vaccines). By contrast, China's CanSinoBio is recognised by just a handful of governments (see right-hand chart).

[CondoleezzaProtege]

If I had to pick, I would prefer the Russian one and of course that’s not accepted here.

[Viking2002]

The one that doesn’t kill you first.

[monkeyshine]

The Chinese Communists didn’t have enough time to steal a vaccine formula.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: If I had to pick, I would prefer the Russian one

Just curious — what’s so good about the Russian vaccine according to you?

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

#2. Tongue in cheek: Well if you count the bullets of a Soviet/Russian firing squad or assassin as a “cure” or “preventative” for COVID, yes I would say it is 100 percentski effective.

[Turbo Pig]

Zero respect for anyone that get the shot for any other reason than legitimate medical concerns; ie being in a high risk group. Getting one so “life can get back to normal” or any other non medical reason is simply caving in to the authoritarians. All that person is saying is that they will take any abuse heaped on them as long as life isn’t uncomfortable.

[Tennessee Nana]

Carnival cruise Lines is accepting J&J and a mixture of Pfizer and Moderna but nothing else and 2 of AZ

[Truthoverpower]

The vaccine industry is pure evil and fraudulent

Avoid them. Like you would. Traveling to Islamic hellholes

[billakay]

I know you weren’t addressing me but I will chime in. The Russian vaccine is the only heavily tested one that is built on a proven technological platform (the same one, I believe, that they used to build the worlds first effective Ebola vaccine). Aside from that, it is being used all over the world (despite approximately zero Western media coverage) and the reports of serious side effects are extremely minimal. The technology is similar to the JJ vaccine, but the Russians claim that most of the weird side effects from JJ et.al. are due to inadequate purification (and leftover random pieces of nucleic acids, which the immune system responds to in an inflammatory manner). They have offered to share their purification technique, but this would be politically unacceptable for any US company.

[billakay]

Also, if you want a more fringy perspective, the Russians do not subscribe to the NWO, Great Reset, and population control BS. Their interest is solely in producing an effective vaccine against COVID that doesn’t hurt the population.

[Thunder90]

The Chinese dont either, but China and Russia have their own plans.

[billakay]

I don’t think it’s reasonable as a general rule to group the Russians and Chinese together. Russia doesn’t trust China. They have very different systems of government (capitalism/private property vs. single-party Communism). In my opinion, the only reason Russia and China cooperate so much these days is because the USA/NATO stupidly keeps antagonizing Russia and making them feel threatened. If NATO were to start normalizing relations, and give the Russians reason to trust them, things would be a lot different. A great first step would be to recognize Crimea as Russian, drop related sanctions, and tell the Ukrainians to go pound sand.

[RideForever]

The real question is, why are we tracking ‘vaccines’ instead of Natural Immunity (you know, the ‘herd’)? Aren’t we still trying to achieve herd immunity? We should be testing for antibodies in t-cells, starting with our kids.