First, I have been vaccinated with Sinovac last April 8 I followed medical opinion that the best vaccine is the vaccine in your arm. Biased? Perhaps. Sure? No such thing as 100%.

But what is the science about Sinovac? I am no expert but I have consolidated information that may prove useful to you and your loved ones. So here they are… I intentionally left the url link in the photos so you can assess the reliability of the source: I wont even attempt to translate them in my own words, but hopefully these will guide you.

From the DOH as of March 31 2021….

Here are some more articles that may help….

Inactivated vaccine- The first way to make a vaccine is to take the disease-carrying virus or bacterium, or one very similar to it, and inactivate or kill it using chemicals, heat or radiation. This approach uses technology that’s been proven to work in people – this is the way the flu and polio vaccines are made – and vaccines can be manufactured on a reasonable scale. 

World Health Organization, https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/the-race-for-a-covid-19-vaccine-explained

Sinovac uses the inactivated vaccine platform

-Philippine News Agency, Jan 2021, Covid-19 Vaccines in PH, What to Know

The effectiveness rate of a coronavirus vaccine from Sinovac, a Chinese developer, at preventing symptomatic infections has been found to be as low as 50.4 percent by researchers in Brazil. By comparison, the vaccine made by Pfizer-BioNTech has been found to be 97-percent effective.

– Al Jazeera News, April 11 2021

Above pic and quote below are from BBC News Article, Jan 2021

” The Beijing-based biopharmaceutical company Sinovac is behind the CoronaVac, an inactivated vaccine.

It works by using killed viral particles to expose the body’s immune system to the virus without risking a serious disease response.

By comparison the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines being developed in the West are mRNA vaccines. This means part of the coronavirus’ genetic code is injected into the body, triggering the body to begin making viral proteins, but not the whole virus, which is enough to train the immune system to attack.

“CoronaVac is a more traditional method [of vaccine] that is successfully used in many well known vaccines like rabies,” Associate Prof Luo Dahai of the Nanyang Technological University told the BBC.

“mRNA vaccines are a new type of vaccine and there is [currently] no successful example [of them] being used in the population,” Prof Luo adds.”

Bottomline, it’s your choice! Not taking sinovac is a choice…