China: Covid Lockdown Protests. Fauci, China Did A Bad Job Vaxing Elderly; Shots Not Very Effective
- CNBC, ' Fauci says China has done a bad job of vaccinating the elderly & their shots are not very effective against Covid, Dec. 2, 2022. - Ed.
“The vaccination of elderly has not been well performed and the vaccine they have has been not a particularly effective vaccine,” Dr. Anthony Fauci told The Washington Post. Fauci criticized China’s Covid lockdowns as “draconian.”
Rare protests broke out across the country over the weekend against Covid lockdowns and strict quarantine procedures. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top infectious disease expert in the U.S., criticized China’s Covid lockdowns as “draconian” and said the Beijing government should focus on vaccinating the elderly.
“The vaccination of the elderly has not been well performed and the vaccine they have has been not a particularly effective vaccine,” Fauci told The Washington Post in an interview on Thursday, as he prepares to step down as director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases later this month. Fauci said lockdowns are only justifiable as a temporary measure to serve a larger public health goal that will make society safer when it reopens. But China’s strict Covid controls don’t seem to have any endgame, he said.
“If there was any advice, it’s pretty simple and it’s not just coming from me — it’s coming from any number of people involved in this outbreak: Do whatever you can to get your people vaccinated and boosted with a highly effective vaccine,” said Fauci, who has decades of experience in responding to infectious diseases, from the HIV pandemic to the emergence of Ebola.
- Video: 'China Covid protests erupt again amid lockdown tensions'. Rare protests broke out across China over the weekend against Covid lockdowns & strict quarantine procedures. While most of the world is relying on vaccines to prevent severe disease so that society can return to normal despite ongoing circulation of the virus, China has enforced a zero Covid policy that aims to crush outbreaks. - China uses a domestically developed vaccine called CoronaVac manufactured by Sinovac. The shots contain killed virus that induce an immune response. Beijing has not approved Pfizer’s & Moderna’s messenger RNA vaccines.
“The efficacy of the China-made vaccines are not at the level of the vaccines that have been used in the U.S., particularly the mRNA vaccines of Moderna & Pfizer,” Fauci said...
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