Posted on 08/23/2021 8:19:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Tsai Ing-wen got vaccinated with Taiwan’s first domestically developed Covid-19 vaccine on Monday, giving her personal stamp of approval as the island begins rolling out the shot whose approval critics say has been rushed.
The health ministry last month approved the emergency use of Taiwan's Medigen Vaccine Biologics Corp’s Covid-19 vaccine, part of a broader plan for inoculation self-sufficiency as delays in vaccine deliveries from global drug companies have affected Taiwan and many other countries.
Tsai, who had held off using vaccines from Moderna or AstraZeneca, the current mainstay of Taiwan’s vaccination program, received her Medigen shot at a hospital in central Taipei, demonstrating her confidence in the safety of the vaccine.
Tsai chatted to medical workers as they prepared her shot, the whole process being broadcast live on her Facebook page, and gave a short response of “no” to a shouted question from reporters about whether she was nervous.
More than 700,000 people have signed up so far to receive the Medigen vaccine, which requires a second shot 28 days after the first one.
The government says the initial experience of the pandemic last year, when basic supplies such as face masks were in short supply, made it realize they had to be able to rely on themselves for critical materials.
Medigen, whose Chinese name literally means “high-end,” rejects claims its vaccine is either unsafe or that it has been sent to market with undue haste, saying it is effective and well tested.
“We have done so many experiments, everyone has seen how safe our vaccine is. There are so few side effects, almost no fever and so on. So I think everyone can rest assured,” Medigen’s Chief Executive Officer Charles Chen told Reuters.
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Paul Torkehagen, Medigen’s director of overseas business development, told CNN in May that the company designed a “very large” phase 2 clinical trial to ensure the vaccine’s safety and effectiveness, with 3,800 participants.
Normally, a stage 2 clinical trial only involves several hundred people. Data from the trials showed that 99.8% of participants were able to form antibodies against Covid-19 after taking two doses of the vaccine, Medigen’s CEO Charles Chen said.
Taiwan’s Centers for Disease Control said in a July 19 statement that the vaccine posed no serious health effects.
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And this from the Philippine’s Interaksyon for those wondering about the technology behind Taiwan’s vaccine :
The recombinant protein vaccine has been developed in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health in the United States, and the government has ordered an initial 5 million doses. It says nobody will be forced to get it.
Is this an mRNA vaccine?
RE: Is this an mRNA vaccine?
Read Post #4, second source.
For your interest.
I’m not sure I understand what is a “recombinant protein vaccine”.
Maybe this article can help you understand the science:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0169409X21000016
Thanks. I did read a couple of articles but I have to admit I didn’t understand. My question was, is it based on inactive viruses?
Here’s another description for Recombinant Protein Vaccines:
This type of vaccines have been in existence for decades. The Diphtheria, Hepatitis B and Tetanus vaccines are examples of this vaccine.
Thanks.
Yeah….. no he didn’t. Yawn…… next fake story….
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