I’m honestly impressed that Mouse was realized as a mystery and thriller series, because it definitely aimed high and was difficult to execute successfully. There have been many impressive scripts in Korean thriller series, but Mouse was truly novel and unpredictable. Mouse was able to do many things successfully, but…

In the past, I’ve tackled reasons why Sinovac is inferior, in terms of antibody generation. I think among the central reason is that it generates fewer antibodies than other COVID-19 vaccines. …

The Department of Health has announced eleven new local cases of the Delta variant here in the Philippines. …

As of today, July 9, 2021, the Philippines has acquired a total of 20,607,570 vaccine doses. 11,000,000 doses were from Sinovac, which represents 96% of all the procured vaccines. It is 58.2% of all vaccines available in the Philippines. The Philippines were in talks to procure 10M doses of Pfizer…

Weeks ago, I’ve already been writing about the untenability of the pursuit of herd immunity here in the Philippines. This was primarily because of the lower efficacy of the vaccines that we’re hinging our response on: Sinovac, which represents 70% of the total vaccine supply of the Philippines, has a…

With the arrival of the vaccine shipment today, the Philippines now has a total of 9,329,050 vaccine doses. @HerdImmunityPH (on Twitter) posted an infographic regarding the vaccine breakdown by brand: It is undeniable that the Philippines is currently hinging its response primarily on Sinovac, with almost 70% of the available…

The lessons of Chile’s experience should be instructive to the Philippines. Due to prior connections with China, Chile’s medical officials met with Sinovac as early as February 2020 and were among the earliest countries to procure vaccines from them. As of March 1, it had procured 10 million doses of…

People I’ve known who are generally familiar with the science of vaccination are generally of two minds regarding Sinovac: Take the vaccine because it’s the only available one; or, Wait a little more because we don’t have definitive proof of Sinovac’s efficacy. Honestly, I believe both perspectives have merit. People…

I was happy that the FDA focused on the scientific evidence and nothing else when it submitted its recommendations to the government. In contrast to vaccines such as Pfizer and AstraZeneca, the Phase III trial results of Sinovac have not yet been released, although data might have been made available…