Posted on 10/21/2020 3:05:40 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Nine people have died after getting flu shots in South Korea in the past week, raising concerns over the vaccine’s safety just as the seasonal inoculation programme is expanded to head off potential COVID-19 complications.
Five new deaths were reported on Wednesday (Oct 21) alone, but authorities had no plans to suspend the vaccination programme, unless investigations, including post mortems, revealed a link, which preliminary findings had not.
“We have reviewed whether it is appropriate to continue the vaccination or better to suspend and wait for the results,” health official Kim Joong-gon told a briefing.
“We came to the conclusion that the deaths had no direct relations with the vaccination given the limited data we have now and without detailed post mortem reports.“
Kim said a preliminary investigation into six victims revealed five had underlying conditions.
“It makes it hard for us to put out a categorical statement,” Vice Health Minister Kim Gang-lip told a briefing on Wednesday about the deaths, which include a 17-year-old boy and a man in his 70s.
Just after a national vaccine suspension Coming just weeks after the rollout of the national vaccine programme was suspended over safety worries, the deaths have dominated headlines in South Korea.
South Korean health authorities said on Wednesday they would press on with a flu vaccine programme as there was no reason to believe the scheme was linked to a number of reported deaths.
Jeong Eun-kyeong, the director of the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA), told a briefing there would be an investigation into the deaths of the people who had received the shots, but the agency had found no reason to suspend the programme.
Officials last month announced plans to procure 20 per cent more flu vaccines for the winter than the previous year to inoculate 30 million people in a bid to prevent the health system being overloaded by patients with flu and COVID-19 exposure.
However, the start of a free jab programme for around 19 million eligible people was suspended for three weeks after it was discovered that some 5 million doses, which need to be refrigerated, had been exposed to room temperature while being transported to a medical facility.
Boosting public trust in vaccines has become a major global challenge this year, as some countries rush to approve experimental COVID-19 vaccines before full safety and efficacy studies have been completed.
South Korea’s flu vaccines are supplied by different drugmakers, including LG Chem and Boryung Biopharma, a unit of Boryung Pharm.
A Boryung official told Reuters the company was aware of the reported deaths, but had no immediate comment. LG Chem said the company would follow government advice.
Deaths and adverse reactions A 17-year-old boy who died on Friday was the first death noted by officials to follow receipt of the vaccine. The boy died two days after receiving the flu shot in Incheon, near the capital Seoul.
A man in his 70s, who had Parkinson’s disease and arrhythmia, was the most recent case. He died in Daegu on Wednesday, a day after receiving the flu vaccine. Daegu officials said the man had received vaccines since 2015 with no prior adverse reactions.
Officials said 8.3 million people have been inoculated with the free flu vaccine since it resumed on Oct 13, with about 350 cases of adverse reactions reported. The highest number of deaths linked to the seasonal flu vaccination was six in 2005, according to Yonhap news agency.
Adverse reactions – which included fever, diarrhoea and allergies, according to Jeong – were reported in 430 people who received the jabs.
The number is higher than 132 and 177 cases of adverse reactions reported in 2018 and 2019 respectively.
Since 2009, about 25 people who received a seasonal flu vaccination have died, but cause-and-effect has not been established, Jeong said.
Even before the coronavirus pandemic, trust in vaccines was a growing challenge for public health bodies.
In South Korea, a poll earlier this month found that 62 per cent of 2,548 respondents in Gyeonggi province, near Seoul, would not get vaccinated against COVID-19, even if a vaccine is approved, until all safety questions are fully answered.
Just get your damn vaccine Baal Geytz (Master Villain), Fraudci (Gates Foundation), Pedro Joe, (Mr Come On Man – Trust the “Science”), Bloodfield (CDC), Deborah Birdbrain (NIH), Deathros (WHO), Mr XiXiPee (CCP), Piglosi (Porked Stimulus), ScoMoran (PM Aust, Mr No Jab No Pay).
Just because some vaccines are effective and fairly safe doesn’t mean that all vaccines are safe, or even do jack shyt.
So GatesFauXiXi succeeded!!!!
got the patents.
got the deaths decreasing population.
fewer elderly conservatives.
fewer pensions (more for politicians).
and even the vaccines kill in the short run.
GateXi, SoroXi, FauXi, and Xi could not be happier.
and PeloXi can TRY to blame it on the President.
so.... when will there be accountability for
them making and patenting the killer virus.
What is SS?
Concocted news from lunatic fringe?
It says there’s no link to the vaccine.
If there were they’d pull it.
Why do you post these nut job non-Christian crap?
Probably more people than that have died from eating noodles in Korea.
Just this morning.
I got my flu shot last week - had a runny nose and a bit of a fever for a couple of days, but all better now. I’ll get a COVID-19 vaccine when it’s available too - it’s just a matter of time before I’m exposed to the COVID-19 virus, better to do it through a vaccine than fight through the actual disease.
Says the never-trumper clown on FR that posts BS like this post in response to a legit story.
Got mine last week. Basically same side affects I always get. Soreness around injection site, general feeling of not feeling 100% . but not feeling ill.
I got a flu shot 2 weeks ago. Normally I don’t get them in fact it’s been over 20 years since I got one and even then I had to get one because I worked in a hospital. The only reason I decided to get one this time was in case I did get the flu, I did not want to have to guess whether it was the flu or covid I have and infect my mom in her 80s.
Normally I don’t like to get injected like that.
As for the Covid vaccine. I will likely get it because I must travel outside of the country to Peru and once they open their borders it may be easier to enter if you have documents that you have had a covid vaccine.
That said, I do not believe in mandatory vaccines. Should be up to the individual.
Should vaccines be mandatory in public schools (polio...etc (not flu vaccine) but the ones we all had when we went to school - I don’t know. I sorta tilt towards the status quo of when we all went to school 30 to 40 years ago.
I got my flu shot last week
Me too. 2 weeks ago. Normally I don’t do flu shots but this year I did only to minimize the symptoms to worry about to wonder if it’s Covid - because I want to avoid infecting my mom who’s in her 80s.
I’ll get a COVID-19 vaccine when it’s available too - it’s just a matter of time before I’m exposed to the COVID-19 virus
Me too. Plus it may make it easier to travel to South America hopefully in February if they open their borders
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Got my Flublok shot last week.
Haven’t noticed any side effects. Neither have I.
I got my shot last week and had an adverse affect. Ambulance called. Never going to get another flu shot without epi-pen standing by.
Going as planned
Yeah, I want to go to gym but I reckon they won’t let me go unless I have had the vaccine. HOWEVER, I am over 70 and I know I will be exposed to COVID at gym...so I’m getting vaccinated.
The calculus depends on your age. If you’re a precocious kindergartener, you’re essentially immune already - and gain essentially no benefit from a vaccine, however safe and effective.If you’re on the way out already, you definitely want it if it is pretty safe and pretty likely effective. Us mature folk don’t have to be paralyzed with fear of an effect which might show up in 20 years.
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