[정치][팩트와이] Vaccine change?…President vaccination video fact check

Ahead of the G7 summit in the UK in June, President Moon Jae-in was vaccinated. It was the AstraZeneca (AZ) vaccine, which was controversial for the side effects of blood clots. However, a suspicion of’changing vaccines’ was raised, centering on the extreme right-minded YouTuber. Instead of AZ, which has safety concerns, he received Pfizer vaccine. Some netizens spread the content and even media outlets expanded and reproduced the suspicion.

Needle lid opened twice… Evidence of replacement?

In the published video, first, a nurse inserts a needle into a vial and pulls out the vaccine. But when I look at the injection, the needle cap that I just opened is closed again. Based on this, it was argued that the vaccine syringe was replaced by pretending to be bringing alcoholic cotton from behind the partition.

By the way, if you look closely at the screen, you can see the hand motion of removing the drug from the vial and inserting the injection needle back into the lid. The nurse holds the bottle and needle cap in one hand. After the vaccine is removed, tilt your wrist slightly and place the injection needle back on the lid. The reporters confirmed directly with the health center in Jongno-gu, Seoul. The public health center explained, “For safety, such as preventing contamination, we also recap (recap) when inoculating the general public.” “I did the same to the President, but I think I misunderstood.” Nurses working at other medical institutions also said, “It’s a common practice in the medical field, and the vaccination method can be done by any skilled medical practitioner.”

The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s manual’prohibit closing the lid’?

However, this is not the end. This time, it was argued that opening and closing the lid is prohibited in principle because it could be stabbed by a needle or a foreign object got stuck in the injection needle. It even suggested the evidence that the health authorities manual states that’prohibition of closing the re-cap of the injection needle’ is stated. It’s a bit far from the suspicion of’vaccination change’, but some YouTubers and netizens don’t come up with conspiracy theories asking why the Blue House violated the regulations.

▲ Photos posted on Daily Best

I looked up the manual that netizens saw. It was one PPT picture uploaded to the Daily Best of the extreme right tendencies. In the lower right of the photo, it is written as the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the predecessor of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The source of the PPT content is NIOSH. NIOSH is the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, an organization under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It appears that the medical staff wrote down points to be aware of during the injection process. The problem here is the phrase’do not close the needle recap’. In the translation process,’needle recapping’ seems to be awkwardly expressed as’needle recap’.

▲ Coronavirus-19 vaccination project guidelines

However, opening and closing the cap of the injection needle is not an action that should be avoided in the medical field. Eun-mi Cheon, a professor of respiratory internal medicine at Ewha Womans University Mokdong Hospital, explained, “After extracting the vaccine, it prevents contamination before inoculation, and in the process of disinfecting the inoculator with an alcohol swab, the inoculator or medical staff may be stabbed, so the lid is closed.”

In particular, on March 2, in the report prepared by the Corona 19 Vaccination Response Promotion Team, there is no rule that the injection needle cap should not be closed again. Rather, a checklist was attached that presumed to recap the syringe after drug extraction.

Is there an end to the’conspiracy theory’ of biting the tail on the tail

In the meantime, criticisms such as opposition have ceased because President Moon is not the first vaccine vaccinator. It was also the basis for conspiracy theories that the government is hiding the dangers of the AZ vaccine. This is one of the backgrounds of the President’s public vaccination. If you want to change the syringe, you need to prepare a scam like a magic show in which numerous people, including public health center officials, join in and trick broadcasters. Hundreds of thousands of people have already received the AZ vaccine, and its effects and side effects are being verified worldwide, and it is questionable why the vaccine should be changed even at the risk of ending political life if caught. Jongno-gu public health center staff met with the reporters complained, saying, “It is difficult to clarify, not clarify, with the fact that there is not.”

[저작권자(c) YTN & YTN plus 무단전재 및 재배포 금지]