@AzulOscuro - Ahh, okay. I thought it was last weekend.

What bothered me was that the government was refusing to even discuss that the vaccines have different efficacy levels. It was misleading to do so on their part. Now they kind of had to come clean, since people with the 2 vaccines are probably going to think they are more protected than they are.

The government just announced a new wave of lockdowns, many in major cities around the country. Over a month into the mass vaccination program and cases are as high as last June. The protests are cranking up again too. 61 people detained and buses and a monument burned in downtown Santiago last Friday. Today there's a big women's march. So, now, we wonder. If the vaccines help keep more people out of the hospital, will they keep the lockdowns or just use the case numbers to keep many areas in quarantine and limit protesting? That remains to be seen, I guess.

They just announced that people flying in from Brazil are subject to hotel quarantine due to the Brazilian variant. The Health Subsecretary says it's because it's more contagious. Of course, no mention that preliminary studies in Brazil are showing that Sinovac has an even lower efficacy against the Brazilian variant than it usually does.