MANILA, Philippines — The demand for CoronaVac, the COVID-19 vaccine made by Chinese firm Sinovac BioTech, increased after doctors in Metro Manila were inoculated with it, despite doubts about its efficacy, according to Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., the vaccine czar.
Galvez made this observation during the pre-recorded briefing with President Rodrigo Duterte, which aired late on Monday.
“What we saw, sir, was that [the demand] rose when they saw that we inoculated prominent doctors,” he told Duterte.
Galvez named two doctors who were inoculated on the first day of the CoronaVac rollout — Dr. Gerardo “Gap” Legaspi, director of the Philippine General Hospital, and Dr. Edsel Sa…
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