“It’s so hard after the AstraZeneca vaccination…” This is an article posted on an Internet community. The author said, “It is not about side effects after influenza vaccination, but similar to two years ago, when you got influenza, when you died and survived.” One netizen shared this post on the citizen participation fact check platform’Fact Checknet’ and asked for a fact check, saying, “The side effects are so severe, is the government not notifying the public?”
In addition to this, netizens said, “Is there a causal relationship with death after AstraZeneca vaccination?” through the fact checknet. “AstraZeneca vaccination is avoided in Europe?” “Is it true that the vaccine is not effective as a real side effect?” Requested a fact check on the back.
MediaToday conducted a fact check by synthesizing the latest domestic and international cases of AstraZeneca vaccine with citizen fact checkers.
1) Does AstraZeneca cause serious side effects? – ‘lie’
Whenever an adverse reaction such as headache or fever appears after vaccination of AstraZeneca, the media reports that anxiety increases.
However, not all’adverse reactions’ after vaccination are classified as’unexpected side effects’. This is because there are expected’adverse reactions’ from the stage of vaccine development and clinical trials. To see if the AstraZeneca vaccine causes’serious side effects’, you need to look for unexpected reactions.
The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention refers to the data submitted during the AstraZeneca approval process through the website. “Generally, very common (more than 10%) abnormal cases are pain at the injection site, tenderness, bruises, warmth, redness, fatigue, headache, muscle pain, and boredom. , I had a fever, and most of my symptoms were mild to moderate and disappeared within a few days after vaccination.”
The UK Medicines and Health Care Product Regulatory Agency (MHRA) released the results of the clinical trials of AstraZeneca and stated that the related’adverse reactions’ were more than 10%. “Most adverse reactions were mild to moderate and generally resolved within a few days of vaccination,” he said.
[영국 MHRA 코로나 백신 주간 옐로카드 보고 요약]
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-vaccine-adverse-reactions/coronavirus-vaccine-summary-of-yellow-card-reporting#conclusion-1
Other Corona 19 vaccines, such as Pfizer and Modena, are not very different. The UK Drug and Health Care Product Regulatory Authority has also described a case of minor adverse reactions to Pfizer. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has revealed that examples of modal or “adverse reactions” include pain in the arm, erythema, swelling and fatigue in other parts of the body, headache, muscle pain, chills, fever, and nausea.
[미국 질병통제예방센터 ‘코로나19 백신의 안전성’ 페이지]
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/safety-of-vaccines.html
[미국 질병통제예방센터 ‘모더나’ 백신 정보]
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different-vaccines/Moderna.html
In other words, cases such as headache and high fever are actively reported in the media and shared through the Internet community, but this is not an’unexpected side effect’ but a’expected category of abnormal reaction’.
2) Is there a causal relationship between vaccination and death? – ‘lie’
After the corona 19 vaccination, a death accident occurred, raising questions about whether there is anything wrong with the vaccine. The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) investigated 8 out of 11 cases of suspected vaccine death at the Corona 19 regular briefing on the 8th and concluded that there was no causality. The investigation team revealed that all eight of the deceased were hospitalized patients in nursing hospitals and had underlying diseases, and their causes were cerebral hemorrhage, heart failure, myocardial infarction, sepsis, and acute hepatitis.
Health authorities in major countries are also making it clear that no causal link between vaccination and death has been revealed.
On the 4th (local time), the UK Medicines and Health Care Product Regulatory Authority (MHRA) reported on the 4th (local time)’Corona Virus Vaccine-Weekly Yellow Card Report’. However, this does not indicate an association between vaccination and reported deaths. “The investigation of what is reported does not mean that the vaccine has an effect on death.”
[코로나 백신 주간 옐로카드 보고 요약]
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-vaccine-adverse-reactions/coronavirus-vaccine-summary-of-yellow-card-reporting#conclusion-1
The WHO reports the results of a case study in Norway where 33 people died within 6 days of Pfizer vaccination, and said that the typical mortality rate for this age group has not been exceeded. At that time, all the dead were elderly people with serious underlying diseases. A’corona vaccine and safety’ article previously published in Nature on February 16 said, “Some people questioned whether vaccination led to death, but there is no death incident that was directly caused by the corona vaccine.” Revealed.
[WHO 노인 사망사고 조사 결과]
https://www.who.int/news/item/22-01-2021-gacvs-review-deaths-pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccine-bnt162b2
[네이처 기사]
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00290-x
Of course, there is an aspect of spreading anxiety as a death accident from’anaphylaxis’ (acute severe allergic reaction) shock occurs at home and abroad.
In this regard, it is necessary to examine the trend of how statistically shock accidents caused by’anaphylaxis’ occur. Major symptoms that can occur spontaneously through the English paper’estimating the baseline for the occurrence of vaccine side effects and potential health conditions’ by researchers including Jeong Jae-hoon, a professor of preventive medicine at Gachon University Medical School, submitted to the Korean Medical Association (JKMS) on February 26th. Predicted the numbers.
The paper predicted that’anaphylaxis’ reactions would occur on average of 4.72 per month (56.67 per year) per 100,000 population. According to the Central Defense Response Headquarters, 38,3346 people were vaccinated against Corona 19 as of 0 o’clock on the 9th, and anaphylactic shock is one case, which does not exceed the expected range that can occur naturally.
[정재훈 교수팀 논문]
https://jkms.org/pdf/10.3346/jkms.2021.36.e67
In the midst of this, as domestic media reports that deaths after Pfizer and Modena vaccinations are increasing rapidly, claims that other Corona 19 vaccines are dangerous are spreading in Korea.
On the 22nd of last month, Internet media Finance Today published an article on the 22nd of last month, “Around 1,000 cases of deaths from being vaccinated in the United States in two months, and one-third of these deaths within 48 hours” and reported that “Pfizer and Modena vaccines are more dangerous.” Finance Today reported as if there was public confidence, saying, “The number is officially reported on the VAERS site of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”
As a result of the confirmation, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is operating a VAERS (Vaccine Side Effect Reporting System) site, and the figures are also true. However, this site is not a’official information announcement’ but a’abnormal symptom report reception section’, so anyone can report it. The VAERS site states, “You should not judge that a vaccine caused or contributed to a side effect or disease just because a report was made.”
[VAERS 사이트]
https://vaers.hhs.gov/index.html
Official information of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention can be found on the’Adverse Event Report’ page updated on March 1 (local time). The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said, “After COVID-19 vaccination, anaphylaxis is rare. To date, VAERS has not found any signs of safety issues with the corona vaccine.”
[미국 질병통제예방센터 이상반응 보고 페이지]
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/adverse-events.html
3) Are you avoiding AstraZeneca in Europe?
Is Europe avoiding the AstraZeneca vaccine? Through the’Vaccine Tracker’ system of the European Centers for Disease Prevention (ECDC), it is possible to comprehensively grasp the supply and demand of vaccines and inoculations by type in Europe. Looking at’Vaccine Tracker’, the AstraZeneca vaccine is distributed and widely used in 27 countries in Europe, so it is hard to say that it is avoided.
Are these countries not using AstraZeneca and stocking them up? In fact, the Korean economy and other media quoted the Foreign Press Financial Times on the 28th of last month, saying, “European Union countries are just stocking up the AstraZeneca vaccine.” However, according to the’Vaccine Tracker’ on the 8th (local time), there have been no cases in which 27 countries in Europe that have secured the AstraZeneca vaccine have received less than 20% of the reserves.
Recently, the dose of AstraZeneca is increasing. A comparison of the Financial Times and the domestic article citing it with the’vaccine tracker’ revealed that the AstraZeneca vaccine was only used in Spain at around 20%, but increased to 44% as of March 8. Changes are detected, such as Germany 20→34.2% and France 16%→22.9%.
[유럽질병예방센터(ECDC) 백신트래커]
https://qap.ecdc.europa.eu/public/extensions/COVID-19/vaccine-tracker.html#distribution-tab
Of course, it is true that more Pfizer vaccines have been distributed and vaccinated. However, this should take into account the late introduction of the AstraZeneca vaccine and the fact that some countries have restricted vaccination to the elderly in the case of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
As a result of the synthesis of foreign media reports, in March, Austria, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, and Belgium made approval or recommendations to extend the age of AstraZeneca vaccination to 65 years or older, and Hungary recommended extending it to 60 years or older. France expanded to 65-74 years old.
The reason why the AstraZeneca vaccine was limited to vaccination for the elderly was because clinical trials did not have enough data to prove its effect on the elderly. Last month, the Scottish Department of Public Health analyzed how severe the risk was reduced after the AstraZeneca vaccination, and found that the number of cases receiving the Pfizer vaccine decreased by 85%, and the AstraZeneca vaccine decreased by 94%. The AstraZeneca vaccine has proven to be 81% effective even in the elderly.
[스코틀랜드 공중보건국 관련 자료]
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3789264
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