Yeah, I think it is hard to fully pinpoint the efficacy of each vaccine. They were often tested on different populations, different conditions. Some accounted for mild or asymptomatic infection, others not. The ones tested later had more variants to contend with, etc.

I know that there was a much hailed study about Sinovac done on Indonesian doctors that found it over 90% effective against hospitalization and death. It turns out that they were only followed over 28 days after being fully vaccinated. I don't think that tells you much since people often get progressively worse and end up hospitalized. If you got infected on day 21 of the study you may end up hospitalized or dead after day 28. Now, a few months later, many Indonesian doctors that got Sinovac have died. It's being attributed to the Delta variant, but the vaccine was probably never over 90% effective in the first place.

I think the chief of staff staying was too much of a liability. There's no smoking gun, but the Interior Ministry is the government entity that approves travel. I am sure there were no e-mails or calls through official channels, but they had other ways to contact each other.

The government has had so many gaffes and "let them eat cake" moments in their handling of the pandemic, where they show they do not understand how their policies are impacting normal people while the priviliged do what they want with few consequences. They couldn't do nothing this time. This is the second time they lied about the circumstances of someone bringing in the Delta variant and eventually had to correct themselves. People are losing patience again.


Super-spreader event is right. Apparently the parents are anti-vaxxers as well. If what I have read is correct, the father has been identified. He's an evangelical pastor. He also ran to be a member of the convention that is going to rewrite the constitution. He lost, though.