President Moon Jae-in is getting a vaccine against AstraZeneca (AZ)’s novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) at the Jongno-gu Health Center in Seoul on the morning of the 23rd. yunhap news
When suspicion that President Moon Jae-in had “changed” the vaccine shot quickly spread online, the quarantine authorities strongly denied it. The police began an investigation into the related false article.
The core of the suspicion is that the Corona 19 vaccine that President Moon Jae-in met on the 23rd is not AstraZeneca (AZ), but Pfizer or a third-party product. The reason is that in the released video of the vaccination scene, when the syringe that sucked the injection solution from the vial came out from the back of the screen just before vaccination, the lid was covered.
On the 24th, the Central Defense Countermeasure Headquarters refuted on the 24th that “the preparation time, etc., is required when filming the vaccination public scene, so the lid is put on the syringe to prevent contamination. At the same time, Bang Dae-bon decided that the matter was serious and asked the police to investigate.
① President Wen was Pfizer right?
The side that raised the suspicion suspects that inside and outside President Moon was hit by Pfizer, not the AZ vaccine. Following controversy over the effectiveness of the AZ vaccine over the age of 65, controversy over the generation of rare blood clots has erupted recently. Since then, there has been some awareness of “Isn’t Pfizer relatively safe?”
However, according to Jongno-gu, there is no cryogenic storage facility in the public health center to store Pfizer. Pfizer vaccine is difficult to distribute and store. It must be maintained at a level of -70 degrees Celsius. This is the reason for operating a separate vaccination center for Pfizer vaccination. The 58,500 Pfizer vaccines imported into Korea on the 26th of last month were divided into each center. It is said that not one bottle was delivered to the public health center.
If Pfizer is hit, the day of the second vaccination is also different. Both AZ and Pfizer should be shot twice, but the intervals are different. AZ is 10 weeks and Pfizer is 3 weeks. The quarantine authorities are not allowing cross vaccinations.
A Jongno-gu official said, “To change the vaccine (from the planner who secretly took Pfizer out of the vaccination center), the staff who actually put the vaccine must collide with each other. Is this possible?” said, “It’s just absurd.” It means that there are a lot of’eyes’.
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② Suspicious screen
AZ can fit up to 11 people per bottle. Sucking an injection solution out of a vial is expressed as’subdivision’. However, when a small syringe came out of the back of the screen, the camera caught the lid on suddenly. Because of this, it is argued that the replacement could not have been done beyond the screen.
“The partition seems to have caused a useless misunderstanding,” said a professor of respiratory medicine who requested anonymity. Foreign countries don’t use this screen,” he said. “Because of concerns about infection, it seems that the partition was carefully laid out.
An official in Jongno-gu said, “It was previously used as a screen in the inoculation room on the second floor of the public health center. In the first place, the medical staff and the vaccination target sit side by side in the vaccination,” he explained.
After the suspicion was raised, it is in the midst of controversy whether it is appropriate to put the cap on the injection needle again during the vaccination process. Multiple medical experts contend that it is “not common.” A medical official who also requested anonymity said, “It is normal to poke a vial (vial) with a syringe and then inoculate (subdivide) immediately,” he said. “If the needle touches the surface of the cap when the cap is recapped, the possibility of contamination increases. In the process, the medical staff could also get stuck in the needle,” he said.
It is not recommended from the viewpoint of infection control because’needle injury’, which may cause the injection needle to bend, may occur during the re-fitting process.
On the other hand, Ko Jae-young, head of the crisis communication team at the central quarantine countermeasures headquarters, said at a press conference on the 24th, “If it is normal, (medical staff) sit down and immediately transfer to the syringe and inoculate it. (After subdividing the injection solution), he said, “I put the cap on,” he said, “it was removed just before the vaccination.”
The disease agency explained that the recap is judged by the medical staff according to the situation. Jeong-ik Hong, head of the vaccination planning team at Bang Dae-bon, said, “There is nothing specially set for’It should be covered’ and’No.’ It depends on the nurse’s (vaccination) situation,” he said. “I have two hands. If your hands are free, you can inoculate immediately. However, if you have to do other work (in between), it shouldn’t be contaminated, so put on a cap.”
Reporters Minwook Kim and Sooyeon Hwang [email protected]
