Economic collapse will kill people, and could start a civil war or revolution.
This is not just true in China but in the Philippines, in India, etc.
Without a vaccine, the lockdowns will continue and the economy suffers. Give everyone the vaccine and the economy will open. So even if the vaccine harms one out of ten thousand people, no problem because poverty kills a lot more.
And China (and Russia) will offer the vaccine to other countries while the US FDA stops the release because they fear side effects, but actually because it harms Trump.
And one wonders at the right believing the anti vax hysteria which is fueled by Russian sites that post stories and were originally picked up by hollywood leftists but now the christian right believes the fake stories.