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Only a small percent of the world is vaccinated with mRNA vaccines, thus it's not a global solution.

Some vaccines are already ineffective with the variants, e.g. Chile has one of the highest vaccination rates in the world, but doesn't have the disease under control.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-57436861




What vaccine was Chile using?


* 79% Sinovac

* 18% Pfizer

* 2% Oxford/AstraZeneca

* 1% CanSino

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-vaccine-doses-by-ma...

Sinovac has been recently approved by the WHO for emergency use

https://www.who.int/news/item/01-06-2021-who-validates-sinov...


It has been, but from what I've heard Sinovac is significantly less effective than the others: https://apnews.com/article/china-gao-fu-vaccines-offer-low-p...




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