Sunday’s leaked documents suggesting that Pfizer vaccines had always been part of the government’s program turned out to be authentic, the health minister said today, but he thinks that Thais shouldn’t read too much into it.
The leaked document sparked public outrage since yesterday, especially since the Thai government was already being slammed for their monopolized focus on Chinese-made Sinovac, also known as CoronaVac. The files contained meeting minutes of a discussion held June 30 that included an unidentified health official saying that giving Pfizer vaccines to medical professionals would imply that Sinovac’s was of poorer quality, making it “difficult for us to find a reasonable excuse” to encourage people to take the latter.
“It was only someone’s opinion recorded,” Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul reacted to the outrage this morning….
