China Admits Its Vaccines Suck

Just how ineffective are the Chinese vaccines?

On a conference call a few days ago, George Fu Gao, the head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, acknowledged that Chinese vaccines “don’t have very high protection rates.”

Backtracking immediately, he tried to explain that he was attempting to increase vaccine efficiency. But his initial statement was actually quite accurate, as rare as it is for the Chinese Communist Party to admit any deficiencies.

Here are some of the Chinese vaccines currently on the market, along with their protection rates:

— Sinovac Biotech Ltd. with China National Biotec Group Co.’s vaccine is just over 50% effective

— Sinopharm Group Co.’s two vaccines are self-reported to be 73% and 79% effective, but there is no published data to confirm this.

— CanSino Biologics Inc.’s vaccine is reported to be 66% effective. They are based in Hong Kong.

The three American vaccines that are currently approved by the FDA offer 95%, 94%, and 86% efficacy (Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson, respectively.)