Canary in a Covid Mine: Indonesia’s Harrowing Surge-Upon-a-Surge Poses Test for China’s Coronavac (with Bob Herrera-Lim)
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Bob Herrera Lim, Southeast Asia risk analyst for the consultancy Teneo, places Indonesia’s precipitous, unabated case spike in a regional context. With the most vaccinated people per capita in the region (save Singapore), Indonesia poses a test for how well Sinovac’s Coronavac vaccine fares against the now predominant Delta variant. And while a public health crisis in Malaysia precipitated the downfall of a government, the same is hardly likely in Indonesia. Plus: Jeff and Kevin discuss the hot topic of credit-card usage among Pertamina directors and the tenuous role of Basuki Purnama ('Ahok') as the state oil company’s president commissioner.
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