True.
I also didn’t see leftist countries developing a vaccine.
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It didn't get much coverage from the
Trump-Hatred-possessed US MSM, but the "Sputnik V" vaccine was produced in Russia. It's kind of faded away, so I wonder if its effectiveness was less than stellar, or if the company that developed it didn't/couldn't get a partner to mass-produce it.
In China, Sinovac and Sinopharm have produced and are mass-marketing traditional weakened virus vaccines. They've been selling a lot to countries that were late to buying vaccines. One of their major customers is Chile, which is among the most vaccinated countries in the world. Unfortunately, it's starting to look like the Sinovac/Sinopharm vaccine Chile is using is not very effective against whatever is in circulation in Chile. Chengdu-based Clover Biopharmaceuticals has a more modern vaccine that uses technology similar to J&J's and AZ's, but it started Phase 2/3 testing about 3 weeks ago (approval for use would be about a year away).
Meanwhile, the US and UK demonstrated how companies
partnering with government could develop, fully test, approve, and mass distribute vaccines,
including logistics and supporting materials like needles, syringes, and disposables used in administering the shots. Note the words "
partnering" and "
including". OWS, in the US, did not take over or use the DPA to mandate the development, testing, or production. OWS enabled those processes and guaranteed purchases, conditional on approval. OWS also contracted for - and helped expand production capacities - the necessaries that a mass vaccination effort would need but the vaccine companies don't produce. OWS also coordinated distribution logistics to facilities chosen by the states, partnered with some drugstore chains for distribution and injections at nursing homes, explicitly permitted pharmacists and pharmacy techs to do the injections ... OWS was like someone familiar with large-scale full-scope projects organized and ran it.
OWS was a full-scale vaccine development, testing, production, distribution, and vaccination project, on a scope and scale Hil
LIARy and
LIEden could not imagine, and which they would knee-jerkingly reject because government's role would be limited.
That was a long way of getting around to sating that US MSM would not give a lot of coverage to Russian and Chinese vaccines because of how those efforts would pale in comparison to Trump's OWS.