By Rjay Zuriaga Castor
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TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Vaunted Sinopharm vaccine has 73 side
effects and "most unsafe vaccine in the world," Chinese vaccine
expert revealed Wednesday, January 6 (TST).
Tao Lina (陶黎納), a Shanghai-based vaccine expert and a former Shanghai
disease prevention and control employee, recently uploaded a digital version of
the vaccine's instruction manual onto his Weibo page, reported Hong Kong's Ming
Pao newspaper.
The vaccine expert found that there were 73 local/systemic
adverse reactions associated with the vaccine.
"I took in a long cold breath, and counted the conditions
listed in the 'adverse reactions' column," he stated after he read the
manual.
He bared that in addition to pain in the injection site and
headache, there were severe side effects listed that were "more likely to
occur," such as high blood pressure, loss of vision, loss of taste,
delayed menstruation, and urinary incontinence.
He wrote that the 73 adverse reactions to the vaccine listed
on the manual make it what he describes as the "most unsafe vaccine in the
world in one fell swoop."
Tao wrote that no inactivated vaccine has more types of
adverse reactions than this product. He also asserted that this number of
adverse reactions is "absolutely unprecedented."
He stated that other doctors jokingly described the manual
as "one long disclaimer." However, he alleged that as long as the
side effects are listed in the manual, recipients are not entitled to
compensation if they occur.
He also warned the company for it might be immune to
lawsuits from people seeking compensation for suffering the vaccine's side
effects and that the provincial governments will be expected to provide
recompense instead.
Tao suggested that the provincial governments will then face
most of the blame if there are major problems with the vaccine.
His Weibo account was quickly deleted by authorities. His
page now states "this content cannot be viewed due to violation of
regulations."
On Dec. 30 of last year, BBIBP-CorV, an inactivated vaccine
produced by China National Biotec Group (CNBG), a subsidiary of China National
Pharmaceutical Group Corporation (Sinopharm), was officially approved by
China's National Medical Products Administration for general use in the
communist country.
On Dec. 31, China approved the use of a COVID-19 vaccine
developed by state-owned drugmaker Sinopharm, which claimed the jab has an
efficacy rate of 79.34 percent based on late-stage trials, behind the Pfizer
vaccine’s 95 percent and Moderna’s 94 percent.
China is embarking on a campaign to vaccinate 50 million
people before the Lunar New Year holiday in February. The country has been
mired in a slew of vaccine scandals over the past years that have damaged its
credibility in vaccine production, wrote Associated Press.
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