“…Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Peru have all agreed to purchase at least 30 million doses of the Chinese CanSino, Sinopharm, and Sinovac (CoronaVac) vaccines, and vaccination with Sinovac and Russia’s Sputnik V are underway in at least six Latin American countries. A study of the CoronaVac vaccine in Manaus, where P.1 is dominant, found it to be 50% effective after a single dose 9. Touchton says governments should obtain permission to manufacture more vaccines locally, even if they are less effective.…”