China CDC Director’s Vaccine Efficacy Admission Could Have Profound Implications For Africa

Gao Fu, the head of China’s Center for Disease Control, appeared to have inadvertently set off an international controversy when he admitted, for the first time by a Chinese official, that China’s vaccines are less effective than the messenger RNA vaccines produced by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna.

The CDC chief made the remarks at a scientific conference in Chengdu on Saturday and once his comments that Chinese-made vaccines “don’t have very high protection rates” started to circulate online, criticism began to pour in — largely from the U.S. and Europe where skepticism about the efficacy rates of Chinese vaccines was already well-established.

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