MANILA — The Philippines will be starting its vaccination program against COVID-19 with jabs from Chinese pharmaceutical firm Sinovac, which arrived Sunday. Researchers in Turkey said it is 91.25 percent effective. Turkish trials had included over 7,000 volunteers, but the efficacy result was based on data from 1,322 people.Researchers in Brazil said it was 50.
Medical workers could be more alert to mild symptoms and report those more proactively than general public, which Sinovac suspects may be among the reasons behind the less robust 50 percent reading, the person said. Authorities are still assessing which of the priority sectors in the country's vaccination program will receive the 500,000 doses of Sinovac's vaccine, after the country's Food and Drug Administration noted that the product yielded a low efficacy rate of 50.4 percent when used on health care workers exposed to COVID-19 during its trial.Clinical trials with PH
Five hospitals handled the clinical trials: Philippine General Hospital, the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, Manila Doctors Hospital, San Lazaro Hospital, and Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center.
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