Posted on 09/04/2021 8:16:16 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Deaths following Pfizer jabs are exceeding those after AstraZeneca shots, although experts say that many of the casualties were over the age of 74, with weaker immune systems and pre-existing medical conditions.
Since the vaccination program began on Feb. 26, a total of 153 cases of death after inoculation had been reported as of Monday, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA). Pfizer accounted for 93 cases and AstraZeneca 60.
Ironically, some people in Korea have been avoiding the AstraZeneca vaccine and trying to get the Pfizer one instead. In April, blood clots were reported among people receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine.
“I made a reservation for the AstraZeneca vaccine, but I’m not going to show up on the day because I’m worried about the side effects,” said Ms. Oh, 71, who lives in Anyang, Gyeonggi. “Many of my friends also told me that they are going to put off the AstraZeneca vaccination to get Pfizer later.”
Enthusiasm for the shots isn't high. As of Monday, the booking rate for Covid-19 vaccinations — the percentage of people in an age group who have made reservations — was only 55.9 percent among people aged 60 to 74, who are eligible for the AstraZeneca vaccine. The booking rate for people between the ages of 60 to 64 was only 47.4 percent.
Health Minister Kwon Deok-cheol said in a recent briefing that “the reservation rate is slowing,” and urged the elderly to participate in the vaccination campaign.
Deaths have been reported among elderly without underlying diseases after they received Pfizer shots.
Last Thursday, an 81-year-old man in Sokcho, Gangwon Province, died six days after getting his second Pfizer shot, and an epidemiological investigation is underway to find any causality. The man did not have any underlying diseases, and did not show any adverse reaction after the inoculation.
In Gwangju, an 81-year-old woman died an hour and 18 minutes after receiving the second Pfizer shot on May 12.
Two minutes after her second shot, she lost consciousness and showed signs of anaphylaxis, or severe allergic reaction. In a preliminary examination, she was said to have no underlying disease.
Health authorities, however, explained that none of the deaths reported so far are related to the vaccinations.
“On the elderly without underlying diseases who died after inoculation, we could find the causes of death through an autopsy, such as cardiac infarction, heart rupture or pulmonary embolism,” an official from the KDCA told the Korea JoongAng Daily.
“We don’t think there is a meaningful difference [between AstraZeneca and Pfizer in terms of deaths] seeing the situations abroad,” the official added.
The death rate per 100,000 vaccinated people was similar between Pfizer (2.71 per 100,000 people) and AstraZeneca (2.62 per 100,000 people), and those results were similar to other countries, according to the KDCA.
For example, in the U.K. where a larger number of inoculations have being done, there were 3.19 deaths per 100,000 people for Pfizer, and 3.29 for AstraZeneca.
“As the Pfizer vaccine is being administered to people over 74 years old, the number of deaths tends to be higher than AstraZeneca and makes it more likely that coincidental deaths will occur,” said Kim Woo-joo, a professor of infectious diseases at Korea University Guro Hospital.
“When you see the reports from the KDCA, it says those received the vaccines died of symptoms such as pneumonia or stroke, which do not suddenly occur when vaccinated,” said Chon Eun-mi, a professor of respiratory medicine at Ewha Womans University Mokdong Hospital.
“Many of the very elderly people cannot feel when they have symptoms because their body functions poorly,” Chon said. “The vaccine triggers underlying symptoms that they weren’t aware of, causing death.”
Chon advised people over 74 to get a check-up before being vaccinated.
A survey conducted by the Asan Medical Center on adverse reactions to vaccines in healthcare workers aged between 20 to 69 showed that vaccine-associated adverse reactions were more commonly reported after AstraZeneca shots (93.3 percent) than Pfizer (80.1 percent).
Recently, cases of heart inflammation among young people after receiving the Pfizer vaccine have been reported overseas — in the U.S. and Israel — though no firm conclusions have been reached.
A total of 3,792,906 people, or 7.4 percent of Korea’s population, had received one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine as of Monday.
AstraZeneca's vaccine has been given to 2,061,634 people, while 1,731,272 received Pfizer's.
The KDCA announced on Monday that the first batch of 55,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine will arrive on May 31. This is part of a 40 million-dose contract signed with Moderna.
Moderna announced last December 31 that it would ship its first batch in May, saying that it had signed a supply contract with Korea for 20 million people.
"It will take time to use because it needs final permission from the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety,” said Sohn Young-rae, a senior health official of the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasure Headquarters, during an online briefing on Monday.
The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety approved the use of the vaccine but only after submitting a final report on clinical trials.
Moderna’s vaccine, based on messenger RNA, was the fourth Covid-19 vaccine to be approved after AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Janssen. Korea approved the Moderna vaccine on May 21 on the condition that the company submit the final outcome of its clinical studies.
From the article:
“Deaths following Pfizer jabs are exceeding those after AstraZeneca shots, although experts say that many of the casualties were over the age of 74, with weaker immune systems and pre-existing medical conditions.”
But, but, but the anti-vaxxers told me it was us healthy young people who were most at risk from dying from the vaccine! They couldn’t have been wrong, could they? Never mind that I’m in my early 30’s and still killing it at cardio months after receiving the Pfizer vaccine.
“Since the vaccination program began on Feb. 26, a total of 153 cases of death after inoculation had been reported as of Monday, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA). Pfizer accounted for 93 cases and AstraZeneca 60.”
153 deaths out of how many hundreds of thousands of vaccinations?
I also find it significant that the death rates are given as 1-3 per 100,000 while the death rate from COVID itself is 2 in 100.
:-)
Yep....those guys 😂
Waiting 6 wks or possibly more makes more sense.
Waiting forever, to NOT take these risky shots, for something that is 99% survivable, makes the most sense.
Also waiting longer allows them to claim them as unvaccinated when they die, thus inflating the numbers of unvaccinated deaths and lowering the number of vaccinated deaths even though they received vaccinations.
Exactly!
jabs ... not vaccines.
:)
Covid is not killing "2 out of 100" in Korea. It actually got a death rate of about .014 not 2%.
So since you lying about that. What else are you lying about to cling to your emotion base hysteria about the jab?
From the very story you quoted.
On Monday, Korea reported 538 new Covid-19 cases, including 513 local infections, raising the total caseload to 136,467, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said. There were three additional virus deaths, raising the total to 1,934.
Covid is not killing "2 out of 100" in Korea. It actually got a death rate of about .014 not 2%
Actually I forgot the article was about Korea and looked at the death rate for the US, which has a higher obesity rate than Korea. Death rate for Korea is much better at 0.89%, according to Worldometers (2,321 deaths/ 260,403 total cases).
Worldometers: South Korea
So since you lying about that. What else are you lying about to cling to your emotion base hysteria about the jab?
Given that the anti-vaxxers expect me to clutch my pearls over vaccine-related myocarditis, which happens in 0.001% of vaccinated people, I don't think you're in any position to lecture anyone else about "emotion base hysteria". I am far more likely to die in a car accident than from vaccine-related myocarditis, but that doesn't stop me from driving.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3985007/posts
So you like to do math do you?
Here some numbers for you and I will even show you the work
660,0000 deaths, supposedly, from Covid in the USA divided by current US population for 328,200,000 = a death rate of .002
And for this we are suppose to have a world wide human trial for an brand new type of vaccination that has never been used before just because of the hysterical hype and shameless demogagary of the Jab Nazis?
This is not about vaccines working. It about using a whole new type of vaccine, that failed every previous clinical trial, without adequate safe guards
Here so “facts” based on the Government’s own sources
The CDC
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/conversations/understanding-vacc-work.html
Understanding mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines
mRNA vaccines are a new type of vaccine to protect against infectious diseases.
So we suppose to just believe a brand new type of vaccine, with of history of failing clinical trials, magically came out perfectly with no flaws right out the gate. That this magically happened for the 1st time in medical history with these vaccines?
This despite the fact that, until they could make billions of dollars using it as a “fix” for Covid, this type of vaccine had been passed by as unsafe?
For decades, scientists have dreamed about the seemingly endless possibilities of custom-made messenger RNA, or mRNA.
Researchers understood its role as a recipe book for the body’s trillions of cells, but their efforts to expand the menu have come in fits and starts. The concept: By making precise tweaks to synthetic mRNA and injecting people with it, any cell in the body could be transformed into an on-demand drug factory.
But turning scientific promise into medical reality has been more difficult than many assumed. Although relatively easy and quick to produce compared to traditional vaccine-making, no mRNA vaccine or drug has ever won approval.
660,0000 deaths, supposedly, from Covid in the USA divided by current US population for 328,200,000 = a death rate of .002
ROTFLMAO. Death rate is calculated by dividing number of COVID deaths by total number of COVID cases, not by total national population. 665,858 deaths / 31, 965, 782 closed cases = 2%. By your "logic" vaccine-related deaths should be calculated by dividing number of vaccine-related deaths divided by national population, including the unvaccinated.
Your first link doesn't say anything about trials of mRNA vaccines and your second link is from November of 2020. Since then millions of people worldwide have received the Pfizer vaccine with little to no side effects and the FDA has granted full approval to the Pfizer vaccine. Try to keep up with the times.
FDA Fully Approves Pfizer Vaccine
If you don't want to get the vaccine for yourself that should be your choice, but stop making conservatives look bad by repeating misinformation about the vaccine.
I took it too. Just not every day. I only know what I read.
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