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I truly believe that eastern countries are doing the right thing by speeding up the process of getting a vaccine ready. We all know there are some risks by I’m convinced that the benefits far outweigh any risk.

"While the U.S. and Europe await the results of large-scale clinical trials before deploying Covid-19 vaccines, some other nations are moving much faster with emergency-use rollouts of experimental Chinese and Russian candidates in an attempt to stem the global rise in infections.

Over the past month, the United Arab Emirates has been offering a Chinese vaccine to thousands of medical workers, teachers, airport staff and government officials in the most ambitious such program outside China itself."

"China has already inoculated hundreds of thousands of citizens at home, expanding the distribution of experimental vaccines outside of clinical trials to students, diplomats and others traveling abroad."

"The U.A.E. last month became the first country outside of China to approve emergency use of a vaccine developed by state-owned China National Pharmaceuticals Group, or Sinopharm, after the Gulf monarchy tested it on 31,000 volunteers of 125 nationalities in Phase 3 trials."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-china-rush-to-fill-covid-19-vaccine-void-left-by-the-wests-cautious-approach-11602761396