https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqiBxxAwTmM (15 min)
【苑举正】我是中国台湾人，我来打祖国的疫苗了！
This is in Chinese, unfortunately. For those who are unable to understand Chinese, you might want to give it a miss. The gist of this video is about this Taiwanese professor who went back to China, the motherland, to get his Covid vaccine jab. He related the professional and scientific approach in the whole process from landing at the airport, swapping, quarantine, to his vaccination. It was all conducted with the precision of engineers.
No politics involved.
ReplyDeleteAnother one with English subtitles as follows:-
https://youtu.be/xaq8el66aFA
Former Taiwan politician tells why he came to Shanghai for vaccination.
Cheers
COVID-19: Man Infected 43 Times For 10 Months Straight
ReplyDeleteA 72-year-old British man tested positive for coronavirus for 10 months in what is thought to be the longest recorded case of continuous infection, researchers said on Thursday.
Dave Smith, a retired driving instructor from Bristol in western England, said he tested positive 43 times, was hospitalised seven times and had made plans for his funeral.
“I’d resigned myself, I’d called the family in, made my peace with everybody, said goodbye,”, he told BBC television.
His wife, Linda, who quarantined with him at home, said: “There was a lot of times when we didn’t think he was going to pull through. It’s been a hell of a year”.
Ed Moran, a consultant in infectious diseases at the University of Bristol and North Bristol NHS Trust, said Smith “had active virus in his body” throughout.
“We were able to prove that by sending a sample of his virus to university partners who managed to grow it, proving that it was not just left-over products that were triggering a PCR test but actually active, viable virus.”
Smith recovered after treatment with a cocktail of synthetic antibodies developed by the US biotech firm Regeneron.
This was allowed on compassionate grounds in his case but the treatment regime is not clinically approved for use in Britain.
Results of a clinical trial published this month showed the treatment reduced deaths among severe Covid patients who are unable to mount a strong immune response.
“It’s like you’ve been given your life back”, Smith told the BBC.
He and his wife cracked open a bottle of champagne when he finally tested negative, 45 days after receiving the Regeneron drug and some 305 days after his first infection.
Smith’s treatment was not part of an official medical trial but his case is now being studied by virologist Andrew Davidson at the University of Bristol.
A paper on his case will be presented at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases in July, saying that his is thought to be “the longest infection recorded in the literature”.
“Where does the virus hide away in the body? How can it stay just persistently infecting people? We don’t know that,” Davidson said.
Smith had a history of lung disease and had recently recovered from leukaemia when he caught the virus in March 2020.
He told The Guardian daily that since his recovery, he still gets breathless but has travelled in Britain and is teaching his granddaughter to drive.
“I’ve been down to the bottom and everything’s brilliant now,” he said.
— AFP
Did he not use Pfizer or Moderna 95% efficacy vaccines?
ReplyDeleteThe calculation of the effectiveness of the vaccine is very simple. Basically, it is (X-Y)/X x 100% where X is the attack rate of the virus in the unvaccinated population while Y is the attack rate of the virus in the vaccinated population. Ideally, the profile of both populations should be similar, otherwise, we may not be comparing apple to apple.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I have tabulated the effectiveness of the vaccine everyday based on the cases published by MOH since 1 May 2021. The average effectiveness of the vaccine is almost 0%. This being the case, vaccinating 70% of the population to achieve herd immunity is a futile effort.
Do send me a note on Messenger if you want a copy of my Excel tabulation of the average effectiveness of the vaccine. I am more than happy to share.
Stay safe!
Foong Swee Fong
Silly American lackeys proving itself again that it cannot use Chinese vaccines except Americans.
ReplyDeleteNow going to buy another new untested American vaccines and refusing to touch Chinese vaccines after the initial purchase without the Americans approval.
Worse than a colony of the empire.
The ST seems to be on a mission to cheer for the West mRNA vaccines and cast doubts about the Chinese Sinovac vaccines.
ReplyDeleteThere are already quite a few articles on this including having Kenneth Mak, director of MOH medical services giving his take that there were significant problems with Sinovac vaccines in other countries. He however did not mention about the problems with the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, all of which were reported by the western media themselves available on the Web
Today , 25th June, they carried an article by the NYT doubting the Sinovac vaccines' efficacy based on the resurgence of COVID cases on countries administering the vaccines in Indonesia, Mongolia etc, which has been criticised by many on twitter as totally bias and slanted on details. NYT, like some American media, has quite a few articles demonising the Sinovac vaccines . (ST did not mention the author but it was written by Sinophobe NYT journalist Sui-lee Wee who even quoted Kenneth Mak to support her)
How did ST see fit to publish this article when everyone can just get it on the web and the people had replied on twitter to rubbish it
Here is the twitter link https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1407526454594703361/photo/1 with of course anti-China tweets as well.
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/delta-variant-provides-philippines-a-reason-to-be-conflicted-over-sinovac-inquirer
ReplyDeleteDelta variant provides Philippines a reason to be conflicted over Sinovac: Inquirer
With the World Health Organisation's confirmation of the Delta variant becoming the dominant variant of Covid-19 worldwide, the report on more than 350 physicians and medical workers in Indonesia catching the coronavirus despite the benefit of vaccination becomes doubly worrisome.
With the World Health Organisation's confirmation of the Delta variant becoming the dominant variant of Covid-19 worldwide, the report on more than 350 physicians and medical workers in Indonesia catching the coronavirus despite the benefit of vaccination becomes doubly worrisome.
Apart from appearing to back the hardline position of those opposed to vaccination, the report boosts the idea that Sinovac, the China-made vaccine administered to much of Indonesia's population - with its 51 per cent efficacy rate only just making the WHO benchmark - is no match to the highly transmissible Delta variant first identified in India.
Filipinos jabbed with Sinovac - the majority among those inoculated - are anxiously looking to the Department of Health (DOH) to explain the Indonesian outbreak and its possible impact on their own experience.
Most of the infected Indonesians were said to be without symptoms and in isolation at home, but dozens were "in hospital with high fevers and declining oxygen saturation levels."
The report was dated June 17. Within the next two days, Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said that there was no cause for alarm, that the DOH could not complete its analysis of the case without all the facts, and that experts still had questions about the report.
The follow-up response came last Monday (June 14), with not much said about the Indonesian experience. We wonder why.
The report was not by some hack inventing details on, say, Julian Felipe Reef, but by Reuters, the world's largest multimedia news provider.