Task 1: CONVINCE ME! You are task to convince your classmates and family members that Sinovac vaccine manufactured by China is safe and effective. Given the statements below, choose the statements that will help your position to persuade them to get vaccinated Put a checkmark (n) on the item that you think will strengthen your position that Sinovac is as efficient as others in achieving herd immunity against COVID-19. 1. Sinovac vaccine developed by China has been found to be 50.4% effective in Brazilian clinical trials, according to the latest results released by researchers.
2 Sinovac, a Beijing-based biopharmaceutical company, is behind CoronaVac, an inactivated vaccine. It works by using killed viral particles to expose the body's immune system to the virus without risking a serious disease response.
3. Results show that the vaccine is 78% effective in preventing mild cases that needed treatment and 100% effective in staving off moderate to serious cases 4. On the face of it, 50% effectiveness figure isn't as good as Oxford's 70% or Pfizer and Moderna's 95%. But trials are run very differently in different countries, the number of volunteers enrolled varies wildly, as do the criteria used to test how much protection the vaccines offer
5 One of Sinovac's main advantages is that it can be restored in a standard refrigerator at 2-8 degrees Celsius, like the Oxford vaccine, which is made from genetically engineered virus that causes the common cold in chimpanzees​