Uruguay administered about 44 boosters per 100 of population by January 1st after which it has experienced a death surge

Uruguay has administered a two-dose regimen of Sinovac to its population, but its booster program consists of Pfizer shots.

Basically no one at all was fully-vaccinated even with Sinovac in the spring of 2021 when it got creamed by COVID-19.

Still, deaths per million of population in Uruguay at 1,892 today is a far better record without vaccination than advanced nations like France (1,984), the UK (2,387), and the US (2,842) with vaccination.

What's up with that? 

 

The Chinese coronavirus vaccine CoronaVac by Sinovac doesn't appear to be worth very much: Chile as case study

Chile at 20.1% is now Number Two in the world for fully vaccinating its population against COVID-19. (1)

Chile overwhelmingly uses the Chinese Sinovac vaccine. (2)

The vaccination effort began from Feb 2, and by Feb 23 16% of the population had received one dose. (3)

Yet cases began to soar Feb 23, at which time 0.3% of the population was fully vaccinated. (4)

Deaths commenced their recent steep ascent beginning Mar 27 (5), about one month after cases began to soar, at which time 17.1% of the population was fully vaccinated (7) and 33.5% of the population partially vaccinated. (3)

Daily new cases per million on Apr 2 is breaking records in Chile. (6)

The point of vaccines is to prevent serious illness and death. The recent uptick in deaths after the uptick in cases despite the vaccines is very troubling.

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