Brazil has 212,000,000 people and the virus is exploding at one of the highest rates in the world. Thanks, Jair Bolsonaro ( a HUGE Trump admirer)


Brazil researchers now say China’s Sinovac vaccine is 50% effective — lower than announced earlier

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+ Brazil’s Butantan Institute is the first to complete late-stage trial of CoronaVac, a Covid-19 vaccine developed by China’s Sinovac Biotech.
+The institute had said last week that late-stage trial data showed CoronaVac was 78% effective among volunteers with mild to severe infections, reported the Wall Street Journal.
+But on Tuesday, the institute said the vaccine’s overall efficacy rate fell to 50.4% when including “very mild” cases that did not require medical assistance, the Journal reported.