MANILA, Philippines — Vice President Leni Robredo should “just maybe shut up” about the CoronaVac vaccine if she could not say anything helpful about it, President Rodrigo Duterte said Monday in his weekly pre-recorded briefing as he accused her of creating doubts over the vaccines.
Duterte was referring to Robredo’s backing the call of some health workers for the Health Technology Assessment Council (HTAC) to review CoronaVac, the vaccine produced by China’s Sinovac BioTech.
The HTAC, an advisory body created under the Universal Health Care Act, reviews the cost and the ethical and community impact of health technologies — such as medicines, vaccines, or health devices — tha…
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