Thai army secretly sought Moderna vaccines denied to public: leaked document

While the military-backed government has all but told the public to be grateful for what vaccines they can get, a leaked document shows the men in uniform went through backdoor channels to try to get their own supply of Moderna doses.

Public outrage over the government’s botched vaccination campaign, which has led to protests demanding more effective mRNA-based vaccines, erupted anew yesterday over a leaked document detailed an army attempt to secure a supply of Moderna-made vaccines from the Thai Red Cross for its personnel and their families. 

It was the other shoe dropping for many, coming as citizens queue in the streets for hospital beds and at least seven medical professionals died despite being fully vaccinated with less effective, Chinese-made vaccines. More than 800 have become infected with COVID-19 despite receiving two doses of Sinovac.

Since the…