it’s more than strange that China has not used any mRNA vaccines, considering its involvement with trials etc.
strange that - despite FakenNewsMSM farcical attempts to hype “covid outbreaks” in China - Statista lists China as #152 of 154 countries in deaths per million.
(btw even if China’s reporting on covid is not to be trusted, I doubt it would make much difference to its place near the bottom for covid deaths per million).
finally, they have approval for one of their own mRNA jabs, but not for the Chinese!
30 Sept: Reuters: A Chinese mRNA COVID vaccine is approved for the first time - in Indonesia
By Stanley Widianto and Roxanne Liu
(Reporting by Stanley Widianto in Jakarta and Roxanne Liu in Beijing; Editing by Miyoung Kim, Edwina Gibbs and Jonathan Oatis)
Indonesia said it has granted emergency use approval to an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine developed by a Chinese company, becoming the first country, ahead of even China, to do so.
Indonesia’s food and drugs agency (BPOM) greenlighted the use of Walvax Biotechnology Co Ltd’s mRNA vaccine, which has been in development for more than two years and targets the original strain of the coronavirus.
The approval comes as somewhat of a surprise as Walvax, which has been conducting large late-stage trials of the vaccine in several countries including Indonesia, Mexico and China, has yet to publish efficacy readings that would show how well it can reduce the risk of COVID cases and deaths.
Penny Lukito, head of the agency, told reporters the vaccine, now known as AWcorna, was 83.58% effective against wild-type coronavirus strains considered common and normal, though she added that its efficacy drops to 71.17% against moderate cases of the highly contagious Omicron variant.
She did not provide details of the data and did not respond to Reuters queries seeking further comment.
Walvax declined to comment. Share reaction for the Chinese company was muted, with the stock rising just 0.5%...
China has several mRNA candidates in development but the Walvax vaccine is the only candidate in large late-stage clinical trials.
Indonesia also uses mRNA COVID vaccines made by Pfizer Ltd and BioNTech SE (22UAy.DE) and by Moderna, but the AWcorna shot has a longer shelf life, remaining stable at 2 to 8 degrees Celsius (36 degrees to 46 degrees Fahrenheit) for at least six months, according to its researchers...
For its part, China has not approved any Western-made COVID shots and its approved vaccine portfolio does not yet include vaccines that specifically target the Omicron variant.
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/indonesia-drug-agency-approves-chinas-walvax-mrna-vaccine-emergency-use-2022-09-29/
almost all the countries near the bottom of Statista’s deaths per million chart are countries which did not have mRNA jabs.
surely there’s a story here for a decent investigative journalist.
Without a doubt but investigative journalists are in short supply.