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@PaulP .... GSK Pharmaceuticals

https://au.gsk.com/en-au/contact-us/

I think you want a vaccine that prevents infection thus limiting spread and also reduces the severity of symptoms. Can't see the point if it's not real effective at both.
The Chinese vaccine is old tech making it easier to make and store like I said before.
It might be appealing to 3rd world nations or poorer countries but you wouldn't get too many too many Western residents wanting to be jabbed with anything China were peddling.
If you ran a poll on this site, I reckon you wouldn't get one person wanting the Chinese version...

I'd be curious to know the country of manufacture of the standard injections Australian adults and kids receive - annual flu shot, measles, chickenpox etc.

Seqirus (CSL) makes flu vaccine at the Parkville facility, they are building a new $1B .facility at Tullamarine.

A friend of mine just posted this...

My brother flew from Perth to Adelaide today for work. When the WA premier announced a 5 day lock down, he was told, on arrival in Adelaide, that he would have to self isolate for 14 days.
He then immediately booked a return flight back to Perth, from where had just come, so he could self isolate and work for 5 days at home.
He has been refused entry back into Western Australia, although he lives there and just came from there.

Seems a bit crazy!

A friend of mine just posted this...

My brother flew from Perth to Adelaide today for work. When the WA premier announced a 5 day lock down, he was told, on arrival in Adelaide, that he would have to self isolate for 14 days.
He then immediately booked a return flight back to Perth, from where had just come, so he could self isolate and work for 5 days at home.
He has been refused entry back into Western Australia, although he lives there and just came from there.

Seems a bit crazy!

Maybe some of the self righteous living west of the Eucla Roadhouse might develop some empathy for others over the next five days.

Doesn’t the Chinese vaccine come with a free microchip ... or is that all of them?

Thanks Nando.

A simple calculation illustrates why. Suppose 10,000 people are infected in a city and each infects 1.1 other people on average, the low end for the estimated rate of infection in England now. After a month, 16,000 people would have been infected. If the infection fatality rate is 0.8 per cent, as it was in England at the end of the first wave of infections, it would mean 128 deaths.

With a variant that is 50 per cent more deadly, those 16,000 cases would result in 192 deaths. But with a variant that is 50 per cent more transmissible, though no more deadly, there would be 122,000 cases after a month, leading to 976 deaths.

Thought you might be interested @PaulP‍

I've read a bit of argy-bargy online discussing the virality versus lethality, with some deniers claiming the new variants prove COVID isn't a risk because lethality hasn't risen despite increased transmission in the new variants, it's a pretty poor conclusion they've come to, firstly because deaths lag infections by a couple of months so it's too early to call, secondly because the fundamental conclusion is very wrong.
 

Why would they bother implanting a chip, when they can just put them in all smart phones and have everyone happily carry it around?