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A Covid Update

The LRB Podcast

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Are the Vaccination Programmes in China Catching Up?

You mentioned earlier the question of funding other countries monitoring and testing programmes. There's also the questionf in terms of ovisy, an in western europe, vaccination rates are very high. How are those programmes going? Are the other ndof other countryes catching up? Well, i mean, it's remarkable to me, t tha, the biggest failure, almost is, is in china,. Where the they have this extremely effective, a almost pressive, e, you know, regime in place - which allowed them to entirely suppress virl application rights. It has meant that they've had very severe problems with the omecron variant. So that's an enormous failing

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