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Old 17-05-2021, 16:11   #5124
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Re: Coronavirus

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Originally Posted by spiderplant View Post
The AZ vaccine doesn't work well with the South African variant, if at all.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/...ant-inefficacy
I'm not sure you fully understand what reports on the AZ effectiveness on the SA variant actually say. It fails to prevent the person getting moderate to mild symptoms but it does prevent serious illness. So you may get a cough and sniffles but not go to hospital and or die.

Also that was done on a small sample size (2000) with an average age of 31.

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And Sinovac CoronaVac works poorly with the Brazilian variant
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-56731801
Depends what you mean by poorly, that report advises efficacy of between 50-65% but does not give detail on the severity of any infection post vaccination, if it stops serious illness and hospitilisation then it's done its job as far as I can tell.
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