Singapore Breaks Down Covid Deaths by Vaccine, With Moderna Seeing Lowest Rate

[Mista]

Singapore Breaks Down Covid Deaths by Vaccine, With Moderna Seeing Lowest Rate

Singapore’s health minister said vaccines in the country have been far more effective than doing nothing at all.

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(Bloomberg) -- Singapore saw the fewest deaths among those administered with a Moderna Inc. shot and the most among those who received Sinovac Biotech Ltd.’s vaccine, as the city-state’s highly inoculated population provides a glimpse into how different immunizations are holding up in the real world.

Of the 802 people who died from Covid-19 last year in the city-state, 555 or about 70% weren’t fully vaccinated, health minister Ong Ye Kung told the parliament Monday, showing the life-saving impact of inoculation.
Singapore found 11 deaths per 100,000 among people who received Sinovac shots and 7.8 deaths among those with Sinopharm. This number fell to 6.2 deaths for those with mRNA shots from Pfizer Inc.-BioNTech SE and 1 fatality in those who were administered the vaccines from Moderna.

While Ong added some caveats in his comments -- the sample size was small and did not account for factors like age and timing of vaccine doses -- the findings will likely add to concerns around the efficacy of Sinovac’s and Sinopharm Group’s inactivated virus jabs, which have been widely used in the developing world. Initial laboratory studies have already suggested that Sinovac, even with a booster dose, is not effective against the highly-transmissible omicron variant that’s now dominating the world.

The new and highly mutated variant is not yet circulating widely in the city-state, which has recorded more than 285,000 Covid infections throughout the pandemic and largely relied on the mRNA vaccines made by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech to grapple with a virus surge caused by the Delta variant last year. About 87% of the total population was fully vaccinated as of Jan. 8, according to Ministry of Health data.

Living with Covid

Ong reiterated that the key strategy remains to live with Covid-19, which includes not locking down the country’s borders. The government “cannot over-liberalize all social activities” and remove all restrictions. Singapore will respond “flexibly and appropriately to twists and turns that the pandemic situation may take,” he said.

Among other details from Ong’s remarks to Parliament:

• Expects omicron to become dominant variant within next few weeks
• Singapore’s ICU manpower has increased by 12% over the past year to about 1800, and the city-state is training about 500 more staff to assist with such operations
• There are no plans to introduce different rules for vaccinated and unvaccinated children below 12 years in overall school settings, Ong said
• Since vaccination for younger kids kicked off over the last few weeks, there have been no serious adverse events reported so far, senior minister of state for health Janil Puthucheary also said in parliament

 

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[Polestar 2]

Most of sinovac are administrated to old , allergic and aging in singapore. It's not surprising death rate for sinovac are higher.

This report is not accurate reflect of the effectiveness of each vaccine.

 

[vi-va]

A/B test in lab requires same prerequisite.
Death rate without age/health condition grouping is meaningless.
What I know that most Singapore elder people prefer Sinovac, because there is literally no side effect at all.

 

[lcloo]

It is the same here in Malaysia, most of the people given Sinovac vaccines are above 60 years old and having certain medical conditions like high blood pressure, vascular disease (heart or blood vessel problems) etc.

People above 60 years old have more health problems.

They should have analysis according to
a) type of vaccines, then
a1) Age group
a2) Group according to health conditions like
a2(1) Vascualr disease
a2(2) High Blood pressure
a2(3) Dibietics
a2(4) Smokers or history of lung health conditions
etc, etc .

 

[Mista]

Most of sinovac are administrated to old , allergic and aging in singapore. It's not surprising death rate for sinovac are higher.

This report is not accurate reflect of the effectiveness of each vaccine.

Data from other countries who both use Sinovac and mRNA vaccines show similar conclusions. What's more in Singapore, recipients of Sinovac need 3 doses to be considered fully vaccinated.

But hey, continue denying. Already had countless arguments here. Lol.

 

[Polestar 2]

Data from other countries who both use Sinovac and mRNA vaccines show similar conclusions. What's more in Singapore, recipients of Sinovac need 3 doses to be considered fully vaccinated.

But hey, continue denying. Already had countless arguments here. Lol.

Denial? Which other countries say it's? Western or american?

 

[Globenim]

lmao youd think by the first year of highschool American children would all be educated about the concept of survivorship bias, but that doesnt seem to be the case or this piece of domestic propaganda wouldn't fly (pun intended) with their key audience.

This report is not accurate reflect of the effectiveness of each vaccine.

It wouldnt be pushed so hard by U.S. regime propaganda mouthpieces and Washingtons troll army, still scraping for some bullshit to deny the proven effectiveness of Chinese vaccines, if it wasn't in some way misleading or false

 

[beijingwalker]

When seeing world record setting, over one million new infections daily in US and runaway infections in UK, the OP topic and arguement is meaningless and funny.


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U.S. reports 1.35 million COVID-19 cases in a day, shattering global record

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www.reuters.com

 

[Globenim]

A/B test in lab requires same prerequisite.
Death rate without age/health condition grouping is meaningless.
What I know that most Singapore elder people prefer Sinovac, because there is literally no side effect at all.

Cancer deaths of people taking cancer drugs: 8 in 10
Cancer deaths of people drinking cow urine: 1 in 10.000

Dont deny or try to argue it the results are similar all over the world: Cow urine > cancer drugs

 

[beijingwalker]

Really....? what if they give the virus to non infected coworkers?

Facing Severe Shortages, US Health Officials Let COVID-Infected Staff Stay on the Job

Facing Severe Shortages, US Health Officials Let COVID-Infected Staff Stay on the Job

Hospitals around the U.S. are increasingly taking the extraordinary step of allowing nurses and other workers infected with the coronavirus to stay on the job if they have mild symptoms or none at all.

www.nbcchicago.com

 

[beijingwalker]

the findings will likely add to concerns around the efficacy of Sinovac’s and Sinopharm Group’s inactivated virus jabs, which have been widely used in the developing world.

First comes to the first, forget about "developing world", let's worry more about US and UK, they are busy setting up new infection global record every passing day.

 

[KrimesKaster]

Singapore Breaks Down Covid Deaths by Vaccine, With Moderna Seeing Lowest Rate

Singapore’s health minister said vaccines in the country have been far more effective than doing nothing at all.

www.bloombergquint.com

(Bloomberg) -- Singapore saw the fewest deaths among those administered with a Moderna Inc. shot and the most among those who received Sinovac Biotech Ltd.’s vaccine, as the city-state’s highly inoculated population provides a glimpse into how different immunizations are holding up in the real world.

Of the 802 people who died from Covid-19 last year in the city-state, 555 or about 70% weren’t fully vaccinated, health minister Ong Ye Kung told the parliament Monday, showing the life-saving impact of inoculation.
Singapore found 11 deaths per 100,000 among people who received Sinovac shots and 7.8 deaths among those with Sinopharm. This number fell to 6.2 deaths for those with mRNA shots from Pfizer Inc.-BioNTech SE and 1 fatality in those who were administered the vaccines from Moderna.

While Ong added some caveats in his comments -- the sample size was small and did not account for factors like age and timing of vaccine doses -- the findings will likely add to concerns around the efficacy of Sinovac’s and Sinopharm Group’s inactivated virus jabs, which have been widely used in the developing world. Initial laboratory studies have already suggested that Sinovac, even with a booster dose, is not effective against the highly-transmissible omicron variant that’s now dominating the world.

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The new and highly mutated variant is not yet circulating widely in the city-state, which has recorded more than 285,000 Covid infections throughout the pandemic and largely relied on the mRNA vaccines made by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech to grapple with a virus surge caused by the Delta variant last year. About 87% of the total population was fully vaccinated as of Jan. 8, according to Ministry of Health data.

Living with Covid

Ong reiterated that the key strategy remains to live with Covid-19, which includes not locking down the country’s borders. The government “cannot over-liberalize all social activities” and remove all restrictions. Singapore will respond “flexibly and appropriately to twists and turns that the pandemic situation may take,” he said.

Among other details from Ong’s remarks to Parliament:

• Expects omicron to become dominant variant within next few weeks
• Singapore’s ICU manpower has increased by 12% over the past year to about 1800, and the city-state is training about 500 more staff to assist with such operations
• There are no plans to introduce different rules for vaccinated and unvaccinated children below 12 years in overall school settings, Ong said
• Since vaccination for younger kids kicked off over the last few weeks, there have been no serious adverse events reported so far, senior minister of state for health Janil Puthucheary also said in parliament

Wonderful! A Prime example of proper application of science and good administration!

Most of sinovac are administrated to old , allergic and aging in singapore. It's not surprising death rate for sinovac are higher.

This report is not accurate reflect of the effectiveness of each vaccine.

Yeah, right /s

 

[TsAr]

Data from other countries who both use Sinovac and mRNA vaccines show similar conclusions. What's more in Singapore, recipients of Sinovac need 3 doses to be considered fully vaccinated.

But hey, continue denying. Already had countless arguments here. Lol.

people in Pakistan mostly got Chinese vaccines, death rate compared with other countries is very low.

 

[Mista]

Study of S'pore population finds Pfizer, Moderna vaccines offer better protection against Covid-19 compared to Sinovac

SINGAPORE — People in Singapore who received two doses of the Sinovac vaccine have been observed to have lower protection against severe disease when infected by the Delta coronavirus strain, compared to those who were fully vaccinated with the messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccines from...

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Study of S'pore population finds Pfizer, Moderna vaccines offer better protection against Covid-19 compared to Sinovac


SINGAPORE — People in Singapore who received two doses of the Sinovac vaccine have been observed to have lower protection against severe disease when infected by the Delta coronavirus strain, compared to those who were fully vaccinated with the messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna.

This was based on a recent study conducted here by the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) and the Covid-19 data management and analytics team of the Ministry of Health (MOH).

“This supports the need for three doses of the Sinovac-Coronavac vaccine as a primary series,” NCID and MOH said.

In a news release on Wednesday (Dec 15), they said that the study specific to Singapore’s population was done from Oct 1 to Nov 21 and covered 1.25 million people.

The people who were part of the research were aged 40 and above and who received two doses of the vaccines under the national vaccination programme.

“The analysis accounted for differences in age, gender, race, housing type and the daily differences in infection rate,” they said.

Based on the analysis, the effectiveness of two doses of the Sinovac vaccine was 60 per cent against severe disease.

This is lower than that for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which was 90 per cent, and for the Moderna vaccine, which was 97 per cent.

“These results support the need for three doses of Sinovac-CoronaVac vaccines as a primary series to attain better protection against severe disease, defined as requiring oxygen and intensive care, and death due to Covid-19,” NCID and MOH said.

People who have received two doses of the Sinovac vaccine are recommended to receive a dose of an mRNA vaccine as their third dose as part of their primary vaccination series.

Otherwise, they should complete the primary series of vaccination with a third dose of the Sinovac vaccine.

NCID and MOH said that their recommendation is substantiated by international findings.

Based on preliminary data from Chile, people who received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine as their third dose after two doses of Sinovac “had a 95 per cent reduction in the risks of infection”.

“In contrast, the risk reduction in persons who received Sinovac-CoronaVac as the third dose was 71 per cent.

“The antibody rise was also observed to be around 27 times higher when the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was received as the third dose compared to if Sinovac-CoronaVac vaccine was received,” NCID and MOH said.

In Singapore, anyone eligible to be vaccinated will be able to receive their booster doses of the mRNA vaccine five months after completing their primary vaccination series, or two doses.

“We will continue to monitor the vaccine effectiveness of the mRNA and non-mRNA vaccines, including how they are enhanced by a third dose or a booster dose. In the meantime, all persons who are eligible for their boosters should get boosted when it is offered to them,” they added.

Earlier this month, MOH reminded those who have had their first two doses of the Sinovac or Sinopharm vaccines to take their third.

The ministry warned that they will lose their fully vaccinated status in the new year if they do not do so by Dec 31.

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In other words, Pfizer is 4x more effective than Sinovac in reducing the number of severe cases, and Moderna is 3.33x more effective than Pfizer in reducing the number of severe cases.