China Scrambles to Clean Up Damage after Admitting to Shoddy Vaccine

Brazil’s Butantan Institute concluded in January that China’s Sinovac CoronaVac vaccine was barely better than a coin-flip, with an efficacy rate that fell to 50.4 percent. Apparently the Chinese government can admit the obvious when the stakes get high enough, as the head of China’s CDC acknowledged Saturday that the Sinovac vaccine is just not effective enough:

China is exploring the option of mixing different Covid-19 vaccines as a solution to the relatively low efficacy of its existing jabs, the head of the country’s Centre for Disease Control and Prevention...