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© 2021 AFPU.S. sends 2.5 mil COVID vaccine doses to Taiwan
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lostrune2
It's about saving people's lives - complaining about this would be beyond the pale
1glenn
Depending on which shots are sent, that is enough for either 10% or 5% of the island's population. Undoubtedly, many lives will be saved because of this gesture.
I find it disappointing that China would create a stink over this move. China has been sending their much less effective vaccines to Latin America, and the USA has not complained that they are encroaching in our backyard. The only complaint I have with the Chinese vaccines is that their efficacy rate in the real world is less than 50%, and many of those who get sick after getting vaccinated get very sick, unlike with the Western vaccines.
Apparently Xi never heard of the old saying about honey, vinegar, and bees.
theFu
Chile has a very high vaccination rate with the Chinese Sinovac. In Chile, after people got the first dose of Sinovac, death rates increased. So did hospitalizations from COVID. After 1 dose, Sinovac is 16% effective against COVID.
67% effective 2 weeks after the 2nd dose.
80% effective at preventing death once fully vaccinated.
Ref: https://www.wsj.com/articles/first-dose-of-chinese-covid-19-vaccine-offers-little-protection-chile-learns-11618775502
According to the article, Chileans incorrectly thought that 1 dose provided most of the protection and many resumed dangerous activities allowed by the govt. When it comes to vaccinations, the details matter.
Commodore Perry
"Thank you to the #US for this moving gesture of friendship. These vaccines will go a long way toward keeping #Taiwan safe & healthy," Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen wrote on Twitter.
Happy my taxes are going to a good cause.
The world is benefitting greatly from Trumps Operation Warp Speed program to develop the covid vaccines.
Commodore Perry
zichiToday 06:02 pm JST
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The vaccine doses exist because of Trump's program. That is the point. And that we do know.
Sal Affist
We always knew the Americans would start donating vaccines to other countries, as soon as they got their own horrible caseload down. That's the way the Americans are - always generous with their foreign aid.
Wolfpack
Those are 2.5 million doses that poor and minority Americans will not receive now that biden has decided to give up on Americans.
Desert Tortoise
First we have this comment:
Followed by this comment:
I don't think any Americans will go without a vaccine by donating these to Taiwan. There are vaccine doses sitting all across America going unused due to individual refusal to be vaccinated. Those vaccine refusers have no one to blame but themselves. It is free and widely available in the US. I would personally rather see those doses get used in the US but if Americans are refusing to be vaccinated then give them to Taiwan. This helps a dear friend and ally and makes the CCP looks stingy and mean spirited. Works for me.
venze
Delivery of US vaccines to Taiwan a palpable political ploy?
Madam Tsai has been dreamy and hapless all this while, she does not appear to know what is exactly going on outside Taiwan. She has encaged herself via her own doing..
Continuing to plod shakily under the long dark shadow of US, she is slowly mortgaging the island to the superrich perhaps even without any clear understanding.
Would she ever wakeup?