A Sinovac vaccine trial has helped a Brazilian city lower COVID-19 deaths by 95%. Hospitalizations and symptomatic cases have also gone down by 86% and 80%, respectively, while only one COVID-19 patient is currently in critical condition at the city's clinic.
After all adult residents of the Brazilian city of Serrana were offered a trial Sinovac vaccine, deaths have decreased by 95% in the community.
The World Health Organization approved the Sinovac vaccine for emergency use for people 18 and older Tuesday, the second vaccine authorization of the kind for the developer.An aerial view of the entrance of Serrana, Sao Paulo state, Brazil, Friday, May 28, 2021. Brazil's Butantan Institute has finished a mass vaccination of the city's entire adult population with doses of Sinovac, to test the new coronavirus' behavior in response to the vaccine.
The project"shows the protection exists and that the vaccine is effective. No doubt," Gonzalo Vecina, one of the founders of Brazil's health regulator and a medical school professor, told the Associated Press. The project"shows the protection exists and that the vaccine is effective. No doubt," Gonzalo Vecina, one of the founders of Brazil's health regulator and a medical school professor, told The Associated Press.
Hospitals in Ribeirao Preto are so full of COVID-19 patients that the mayor imposed strict shutdown measures last week, including halting public transportation and limiting hours for the city's 700,000 residents to buy groceries. Some will wait months for their vaccines. Almost all shops are closed, and 95% of intensive-care unit beds are occupied by virus patients.
"Then, by the end of January, we heard this project was coming to Serrana. And calmness set in, little by little," said Madalosso, 32, as he pointed at empty seats of the hospital's COVID-19 ward."Just look at this. This is much calmer than Ribeirao Preto and the entire region. The vaccine is no cure, but it is the solution to transform this into a light flu so people can carry on.
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