Official: Chinese COVID-19 vaccines' effectiveness low Sun, 11 Apr 2021 PST


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Official: Chinese COVID-19 vaccines’ effectiveness low UPDATED: Sun., April 11, 2021 SMS By JOE McDONALD and HUIZHONG WU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — In a rare admission of the weakness of Chinese coronavirus vaccines, the country’s top disease control official says their effectiveness is low and the government is considering mixing them to get a boost. Chinese vaccines “don’t have very high protection rates,” said the director of the China Centers for Disease Control, Gao Fu, at a conference Saturday in the southwestern city of Chengdu. Beijing has distributed hundreds of millions of doses abroad while trying to promote doubt...