MANILA, Philippines — The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clarified on Tuesday that its advice on not using Sinovac’s coronavirus vaccine for healthcare workers attending to COVID-19 patients and for older people was just a recommendation.
FDA Director-General Eric Domingo reiterated that the vaccine’s efficacy rate on healthcare workers stands at 50.4 percent based on clinical trials conducted in Brazil, making it not the best vaccine to be given to medical frontliners exposed to Covid-19 patients.
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“However that, of course, is just a recommendation, meaning the DOH (Department of Health) can always pattern their vaccina…
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