Sinovac is reasonably effective at preventing COVID infection, half the rate of the other vaccines is better than nothing and it is close to the other vaccines when it comes to preventing hospitalization and death.
Not having 1.4 billion people needing the western vaccines certainly helped in increasing the rate of coverage in the rest of the world.
At the moment we're using first generation vaccines, the next generation will likely be more effective and longer lasting.
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