Thread by @Noahpinion

Here is Seychelles' COVID outbreak compared to India's.

37% of infected people have received both doses of China's Sinopharm vaccine.

cnbc.com/2021/05/13/sey…

I am concerned about the efficacy of this vaccine.

Here are daily deaths per million in Seychelles, compared to India.

Also quite worrying.

Here is Bahrain, also heavily vaccinated with Sinopharm. (56.5% with first doses)

I mean, it still seems like Sinopharm is better than nothing, but remember that this is a vaccine that we never really got solid data on to begin with.

reuters.com/business/healt…

The upshot here is that exporting the U.S.' high-efficacy vaccines is probably even more important than we thought it was, in order to end the global pandemic quickly and decisively.

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Note that there's a mistake in the first tweet; Sinopharm is the most common vaccine in Seychelles, but some of the vaccinated people did get AstraZeneca.