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<h1 class="reader-title">China Confident in its Sinovac COVID-19
Vaccine (Brazilian Trick + Pfizer)</h1>
November 11, 2020</div>
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<p><strong>The pharmaceutical company denied that what
happened to a volunteer in Brazil was related to its
vaccine.</strong></p>
<p>The Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac expressed
its confidence in the experimental vaccine it’s
developing against COVID-19, after the National Health
Surveillance Agency of Brazil (ANVISA) temporarily
suspended the trials being carried out in the South
American country.</p>
<p>The suspension of the trial in more than 9,000
volunteers in Brazil was announced this Monday by
ANVISA. According to the Brazilian Agency, it “decided
to interrupt the clinical trial of the CoronaVac vaccine
after a serious incident” on October 29.</p>
<p>In response, Sinovac stated: “We are confident in the
safety of the vaccine” and stated that the incident in
question was not related to the vaccine.</p>
<p>For his part, this Tuesday the director of the Butantan
Institute, a public laboratory in the state of São
Paulo, Dimas Tadeu Covas, told the press that the
suspension was due to “a death unrelated to the trial,
it’s as if the patient died in a car accident,” and they
want to stop the trials because of that.</p>
<p>At the time that news of the suspension was
communication, ANVISA did not provide other details. It
also didn’t specify why the news of the incident was
communicated eleven days after the event. The Brazilian
influencer Nathalia Urban posted on her Twitter account
a thread about how happy Jair Bolsonaro was when the
news was announced. and also claiming that the patient’s
cause of death was suicide, and not related to the
clinical trials</p>
<p>The decision made by the Brazilian regulator for health
surveillance “coincidentally” came on the same day that
US pharmaceutical company Pfizer, which is also testing
its candidate in Brazil, announced that its coronavirus
vaccine is 90% effective. celebrated by international
mainstream media as a big success. <b><font
color="#ff0000">Meanwhile the Chinese and Russian
vaccine candidates have proven more effective, and
haven’t the technical difficulties of the announced
Pfizer vaccine that, according to Reuters, needs to
be maintained in a temperature of minus 17 degrees
ºC to be effective.</font></b></p>
<p>In a televised address Venezuelan president Nicolás
Maduro also raised concerns about the timing of both
events, and the international media campaign with logos
of Pfizer in all news coverage, while announcing that
Venezuela is planning a massive vaccination campaign for
April 2021.</p>
<p>Four vaccines are being tested in Brazil, those
developed by Sinovac, Pfizer, the University of Oxford
in collaboraton with AstraZeneca, and that of Janssen, a
pharmaceutical subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson.</p>
<p>According to the data offered by the National Council
of Health Secretaries (CONASS), the number of people
infected with COVID-19 in Brazil amounts to 5,675,032.
Likewise, the total accumulated deaths from the pandemic
stands at 162,628.</p>
<p><em>Featured image: File photo.</em></p>
<p>(<a
href="https://www.telesurtv.net/news/china-expresa-confianza-vacuna-anticovid-sinovac-20201110-0020.html"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Telesur</a>)</p>
<p>Translation: OT/JRE/SL</p>
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