Severe Covid-19 symptoms 5 times more likely in patients who got Sinovac than Pfizer jab: Singapore study


Sinovac vaccine recipients are also more than twice as likely to be infected with Covid-19 than Pfizer recipients. - ST

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Recipients of the Sinovac-CoronaVac vaccine are five times more likely to experience severe Covid-19 symptoms when they are infected than those who had the Pfizer-BioNTech/Comirnaty vaccine.

Sinovac recipients are also more than twice as likely to be infected with Covid-19 than Pfizer vaccine recipients and almost six times more likely than those who took the Moderna vaccine.

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