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New Chinese Covid-19 vaccine shows 82% efficacy against serious infection: Uses Similar protein subunit technology as Novavax
The Independent SG ^ | 08/28/2021

Posted on 08/28/2021 7:14:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Beijing – A new vaccine developed in China by Chongqing Zhifei Biological Products Co has shown an 82 per cent effectiveness against serious Covid-19 infections.

The vaccine, called ZF2001, has shown 92.93 per cent efficacy against the Alpha variant and about 78 per cent against the more infectious Delta variant in its late-stage clinical trials.

The company announced in an exchange filing on Friday (Aug 27) that none of the individuals who received the vaccine entered clinical care or died.

However, there were no clarifications if the numbers covered only serious cases or all symptomatic infections of Covid-19.

The findings were based on an interim analysis of 28,500 people and 221 infections, reported Bloomberg.

ZF2001, trade-named ZIFIVAX, was co-developed with the Institute of Microbiology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the country’s top scientific research institute.

The efficacy rate against the Alpha variant is reported to be one of the highest among Chinese Covid-19 vaccines to date.

Chongqing Zhifei launched the third phase of trials and is also being tested in Indonesia and Ecuador.

The final trial is required before obtaining authorisation for the experimental shot in Uzbekistan last December. It was then tested in Pakistan this year February.

On Mar 10, China approved the vaccine for emergency use and is currently being administered across the country.

Similar to Novavax Inc’s vaccine, ZF2001 is an adjuvanted protein subunit vaccine. It is administered in three doses over two months.

According to an earlier study, the Novavax vaccine is said to show 90 per cent efficacy against Covid-19 although far less effective against the Beta variant.

Meanwhile, the mRNA vaccines by Pfizer and Moderna have shown high efficacy against Covid-19 variants, including the Delta strain.

However, their protection wanes over time, and a third booster shot is being considered.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: china; covid; fakenews; novavax; vaccine
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1 posted on 08/28/2021 7:14:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

I wonder who they stole that from?

Novamax maybe?


2 posted on 08/28/2021 7:23:26 PM PDT by Jonty30 (My superpower is setting people up for failure, without meaning to. )
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To: SeekAndFind

I wonder who they stole that from?

Novavax maybe?


3 posted on 08/28/2021 7:23:41 PM PDT by Jonty30 (My superpower is setting people up for failure, without meaning to. )
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To: SeekAndFind

Yeah, let’s all rush out and get a jab full of Chinese who-knows-what.


4 posted on 08/28/2021 7:24:31 PM PDT by ryderann
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To: SeekAndFind

Meanwhile, Ivermectin still at 86%+++ as a treatment.


5 posted on 08/28/2021 7:25:17 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation.)
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To: Jonty30

Protein subunit technology is a known vaccine development technique.

Rather than injecting a whole pathogen to trigger an immune response, subunit vaccines (sometimes called acellular vaccines) contain purified pieces of it, which have been specially selected for their ability to stimulate immune cells. Because these fragments are incapable of causing disease, subunit vaccines are considered very safe.

Subunit vaccines are already in widespread use. Examples include the hepatitis B and tetanus vaccines.


6 posted on 08/28/2021 7:26:35 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

82% efficacy. This is great news!

Oh, wait. This information comes from the filthy, cheating ChiComs. So let’s talk percentages here. I’d say there’s at least a 95% chance that they’re lying.


7 posted on 08/28/2021 7:33:28 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have alrseady previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I was on a Zoom meeting the other day and there was an American lady in Vietnam. She said you have to wait several hours in line for the vaccine and when people find out if its a Chinese vaccine, everyone leaves. If it’s one of the American ones, everyone waits.


8 posted on 08/28/2021 7:33:33 PM PDT by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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To: ryderann

~~> let’s all rush out and get a jab full of Chinese who-knows-what.

We don’t know what the ingredients are in the US manufactured vaxx either.


9 posted on 08/28/2021 7:55:19 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (“Fraud vitiates everything.” )
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To: Leaning Right

What do you think of the odds of the CDC lying?


10 posted on 08/28/2021 7:56:18 PM PDT by alternatives? (y along. )
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To: SeekAndFind

is this a real vax or experimental gene therapy?


11 posted on 08/28/2021 7:56:54 PM PDT by JerryBlackwell (some animals are more equal than others)
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To: Mean Daddy

I would trust the Russian one personally.


12 posted on 08/28/2021 8:03:01 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: SeekAndFind
Novavax vaccine is not yet approved.

Why?

13 posted on 08/28/2021 8:05:47 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston Churchill)
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To: alternatives?

> What do you think of the odds of the CDC lying? <

Well, since you asked, here’s my own personal opinion. The chances of a pro-vaxxer authority lying (or spinning the data) is around 60%. The other 40% actually believe what they say.

Notice that I said “authority” there. I’m not talking about average folks. I’m talking about the people who claim to be experts.

But wait. The chances of an anti-vaxxer authority lying (or spinning the data) is also around 60%, with the other 40% actually believing what they say.

That’s why I’m vaccine-neutral. We are being lied to on all sides.


14 posted on 08/28/2021 8:06:33 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have alrseady previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Create the crisis and cash-in, create the “cure” for the crisis and cash-in.

It’s almost as if the Chinese Communist Party were Democrats.


15 posted on 08/28/2021 8:08:32 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: Seaplaner

RE: Novavax vaccine is not yet approved.
Why?

The issue is NOT if the vaccine works. I has been tested on over 30,000 people and CLEARLY works. Efficacy and safety have both been established.

The problem is MANUFACTURING.

The FDA is not satisfied with their mass production capability.

Novavax, by the way won’t be manufacturing it in the USA but in India. Their partner in India will relabel the vaccine — COVOVAX.

see here:

https://www.rediff.com/news/report/novovax-covid-vaccine-likely-to-get-nod-in-india-before-america/20210818.htm


16 posted on 08/28/2021 8:15:14 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: JerryBlackwell

RE: is this a real vax or experimental gene therapy?

See Post #6.


17 posted on 08/28/2021 8:16:28 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

I would have to be dead before they would jab me with that crap.


18 posted on 08/28/2021 8:29:06 PM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged )
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To: SeekAndFind

Probably has a whole aborted baby in it


19 posted on 08/28/2021 8:42:12 PM PDT by roving
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To: SeekAndFind
Meanwhile, the mRNA vaccines by Pfizer and Moderna have shown high efficacy against Covid-19 variants, including the Delta strain.

Right.... Isn't Pfizer down to somewhere around 30% vs "Delta"? And that's a gamed number, it's relative risk reduction, not absolute risk reduction.
20 posted on 08/28/2021 8:43:03 PM PDT by Svartalfiar
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