Astrazenica or Sinovac

[SinoAZ]

What would you do? DH has the option to get sinovac through work or Astrazenica through the national program (we're not in the UK).

Sinovac plus points: shorter dose spacing (only three weeks), seems like with Delta variant the second dose is the key one so he'd be protected more quickly.

Sinovac negative points: no idea how well it works against delta variant, can't find much info whereas AZ definitely seems to work after 2 doses. Also its not approved in UK, EU etc so vaccine passports may not be so easy in future.

I would be concerned about the efficacy of Sinovac, and the vaccine passport issue you mention.

The BBC has an article on Sinovac at www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-57817591 which might be helpful?

Definitely get AZ!

Sinovac hasn't got nearly as good protection from the virus full stop after 2 doses.

AZ has much better protection from studies, so definitely AZ. While you might get the Sinovac second dose faster, Chile experience showed that it takes a very long time for immunity to build up. Depending on the source for AZ, vaccine passports could be an issue either way for a short time (e.g. EU not yet accepting Serum Institute is the same vaccine as Oxford AZ, even though obviously it is identical).

We definitely won't get Oxford AZ here. I'll try and encourage him towards AZ!

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We definitely won't get Oxford AZ here. I'll try and encourage him towards AZ!

What does that mean? AZ is Oxford AZ.

AZ.

AZ cause Sinovac has low efficacy. Heard something like 50%, Sinopharn is the better Chinese one. So I'd def have AZ if that was the choice.

@woodfort - Serum Institute make the same Vaxzevria vaccine as the UK and EU AZ factories, but the EU won't approve it yet despite lots of Indian government lobbying to try and sort that out. Depending on where OP is, it's quite likely that the "AZ" vaccine was made at SI. All countries seem to be struggling to confirm a reasonable list of vaccines to be fair, it's very early days still and likely to get resolved over time.

AZ on the basis that it’s a widely recognised and licensed vaccine and it might make travel easier. Our workplace has encouraged us to get one of the ‘internationally available’ vaccines, as they anticipate issues with vaccine passports especially outside Europe, if it’s one of the lesser known ones.

@woodfort they're not all made in Oxford/EU. The people I know who were vaccinated here recently had vaccines produced in Thailand and South Korea. The EU has a problem with that for some reason.

I think/hope it will end up countries agreeing to recognise each others vaccine programs (or not) rather than looking at the details of what brand of vaccine you had but you never know.

I think licenced AZ production is closer to global acceptance than Sinovac. So AZ.

AZ. SInovac is not very effective and other countries will be much less likely to accept it because of that, no matter where it's produced.