Vietnam’s Vaccine Roll-Out the Best or Worst in Asia?
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Vietnam was never first on anyone’s manifest for where to send the covid vaccinations.
Without the economic muscle or the brand power of the developed nations, the only way Vietnam was going to get Vaccines in a hurry was to bend the knee to the CCP.
With nearly no local transmission for months and small outbreaks contained to cities and put out like fires, as quickly as they sprung up, maybe Vietnam didn’t feel that the secretive Chinese vaccine with questionable efficiency was worth it.
To control raging outbreaks, countries have no choice but to accept shots from whoever’s got them, even if that’s China, a country actively stealing your islands and fishing your water.
Politics aside, because they shouldn’t matter when lives are on the line, there is the question of efficiency.
China’s Sinopharm said the vaccine made by its Wuhan subsidiary has a 72.5 per cent efficacy.
And SinoVac’s vaccine was earlier found to be 50.6 per cent effective in preventing Covid-19 in a small trial in Brazil, but 91 per cent effective in a much smaller trial conducted in Turkey.
Here’s data from Chile
Vietnam has Snubbed China and is Betting on Their Own Locally Manufactured Vaccines
In 2014 the Vietnamese government signed into law Decision №68/QD-TTg.
It outlined the goals of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to achieve pharmaceuticals independence and increase the share of locally produced medicine from 50% to 80% per cent.
Manufacturing 50% of all the pharmaceuticals in your country as a developing nation isn’t bad, and Vietnam must have significant vaccine manufacturing ability because apparently, the Gamaleya Institute is in talks to manufacture the Sputnik V vaccine in Việt Nam under a technology transfer agreement with a company managed by the Vietnamese health ministry.
On the 23rd of March, Vietnam approved the Sputnik Vaccine, but no announcements have been made about delivery or local manufacturing since.
Vietnam is also in talks to buy vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson, which may or may not be required depending on the success of its first domestically developed COVID-19 vaccine expected between May and 2022.
Vietnam isn’t Hiding It’s Vaccine Data or Being Silly
That’s what google translate pulls a government site reporting on the development of local vaccines.
Urgently, shorten the time but do not skip any stage, ensure the scientific conditions.
If it works, it’s an awesome story arch for a country that contained the virus to less than 3000 cases, while sharing a border with China. It’s also another vaccine for the world in a region that desperately needs a win.
Second Phase Trial
Here’s some more Google translate from this official report
Regarding the antibody index to neutralize the virus (the ability to destroy the invading virus after vaccination), the 25mcg dose level reached the highest with over 90% at 14 days after the second injection (ie 42 days after the first injection). The remaining 2 doses were approximately 25 mcg, but the difference was not statistically significant.
These results must have been good enough because
Third Phase Trial
In April 2021, the representative of Nanogen JSC said that the third phase of the Nanocovax vaccine trial is expected to start in May and finish at the end of June, 3 months earlier than planned.
The third phase of human trials is expected to involve 10,000–15,000 people in both Vietnam and Asian countries with severe outbreaks. Volunteers will be administered with 25mcg — the only dose for this stage.
Each person will receive two jabs. They are set to get second shots 28 days after the first one.
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