Winston wrote: ↑March 12th, 2021, 12:39 am
Question: Is the vaccine in Asia different than America? Do they call come from Pfizer? How can other countries create their own vaccines? They lack the capability right? Especially third world countries. So aren't they all getting their vaccines from the US and Bill Gates?
I'd rather get a vaccine in Japan than the US because the Japanese are loyal and honor bound and not gonna be involved in a conspiracy against their own people right?
Corona-Vaccine made in China is surely not related to Pfizer,
and India produced corona-vaccine also not, as far as I can see
https://www.bharatbiotech.com/covaxin.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-55748124
@Winston
About JAPAN,
Before I will answer your questions, it would be good if you read this article.
It will explain to you some details you likely do not know.
https://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0007183270
History of vaccines’ detrimental side effects causes safety concerns in Japan
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More than 80 children died of diphtheria poisoning after inoculation.
“This was one of the worst vaccination accidents in the world,” said Osaka City University Prof. Yosuke Tezuka, an expert on the history of vaccinations.
The government was not held responsible because it was caused by errors in the manufacturing process...
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Vaccinations became a major social problem in the nation when lawsuits over damages caused by inoculations against smallpox and other diseases were filed in the 1970s.
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After about 20 years of litigation, a court ruling forced the government to take responsibility.
In Japan many people mistrust the (imported) corona vaccine.
The question is also how urgently Japan really needs a vaccine.
Today out of 126 million people, only 12.151 are confirmed to be active patients in hospital care. Since February 2020 there are 8423 corona-related deaths confirmed. (but during this time there were more than 1.370.000 funerals registered without any relation to covid-19)
https://www.stopcovid19.jp
There are large Japanese pharma producers, like Takeda and Takara which are interested to produce in Japan vaccine in licence from Pfizer and Astra, but it takes time to adjust the production facility and to fulfill all legal requirements to be approved, like a Japanese supervised testing phase with humans.
Shionogi received about $400 million from the Japanese government as support for research and developing its own Japanese Covid-19 vaccine.
https://www.shionogi.com/content/dam/sh ... 201216.pdf
https://www.shionogi.com/global/en/sust ... ative.html
At this moment in Japan only hospital related staff is vaccinated on a voluntary basis (Pfizer) and they have the obligation to report any side effects.
There are indeed side effects reported in Japan from those medical staff
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/ ... cine-nine/
Japan sees relatively higher rate of anaphylaxis from Pfizer vaccine
Does the Japanese vaccine come from Pfizer or Bill Gates too? How could their scientists develop a vaccine in 12 months?
It works in both directions, there is also Japanese research exported/sold to USA
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14138075
Japanese drugmaker Shionogi & Co. said on Tuesday it has sold the development and marketing rights for a COVID-19 treatment to California-based biotech BioAge Labs Inc.
The Japanese drugmaker said in a statement that it had discovered the drug, known as BGE-175, which was under development to treat allergic rhinitis.
BioAge will have exclusive rights to BGE-175 for the treatment of COVID-19 in the United States and Europe in exchange for an upfront payment as well as milestones and royalties.
The U.S. biotech plans to start a Phase II trial of the drug for COVID-19 in the first half of 2021.
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Shionogi is also developing a recombinant protein vaccine for COVID-19 that is now in combined Phase I and II trials in Japan.
The company is betting on a proven platform to help it become Japan’s biggest home-grown COVID-19 vaccine producer