> if is China is willing, it can go down the same path of vax-and-let-it-rip
Many many fewer Chinese have immunity from having had the virus than Brits
The point I am trying to make is that this is a political choice rather than a question of access to technology.
Exactly, quick, strict lockdowns at first puts off the infections to come later when you return a largely non-immune population to business as usual. Zero-COVID should not be the aim, but only to spread out the load on hospitals and emergency care facilities. You want your vulnerable population to get vaccinated, and the less vulnerable who become infected no matter what, build your immune base.
Absolutely not. And that is they key problem.
Personally I was quite sure that Beijing would allow Biontech sooner or later, especially since the Chinese company Fosun was a very smart early investor in BNT.
But unfortunately it seems Xi's nationalism is now so strong that he is willing to let many people die for it.
It should have said:
Some of the vaccines that China have is of the same type as the AstraZeneca vaccine.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-vaccinat...
Edit: changed my ambiguous wording