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“Trash headlines, not really crazy, nothing really changes.”
Lee Jae-gap, a professor of infectious medicine at Hallym University’s Gangnam Sacred Heart Hospital, posted a portal site on his Facebook on the 3rd, criticizing the titles of articles dealing with the deaths after vaccination in Goyang and Pyeongtaek, respectively. In the captured image <중증 이상반응에 사망까지... '고령층 접종확대' 불안감 확산> (The Munhwa Ilbo), <'AZ 접종' 요양환자 잇따라 숨져.. "백신연관성 조사중">There were titles such as (Hankook Ilbo).
Professor Lee’s words,’Not one change’ seems to point to media reports during last year’s flu vaccine. At the time of flu vaccination, the media reported real-time breaking news when deaths occurred after vaccination. However, out of the 110 deaths after influenza vaccination, none of the cases were confirmed to have a causal relationship with the vaccine. The breaking news competition of the’dead’ in the media only raised anxiety about vaccines.
In fact, it was reported that 33 people died after vaccinating Pfizer in Norway, but all of these were found to have no causal relationship to the vaccine. Experts are concerned that the behavior of raising suspicions of “having been vaccinated and dead” before the causal relationship is known, or reporting in the form of breaking news whenever there is a death case after vaccination lowers the credibility of the vaccine.
Infectious disease experts, even appealing to the media…
Professor Jeong Jae-hoon on his Facebook page on the 3rd said, “Death after vaccination is different from death from vaccine,” and “There is already a phenomenon of concern after vaccination. Competitive reporting on death after vaccination.” did.
Professor Jeong said, “The nursing hospitals and nursing homes where vaccinations are given first are places where most of the inpatients spend the end of their lives,” said Professor Jeong. “It is to make the rest of my life peacefully spent.”
“Death after vaccination in nursing homes and nursing hospitals is highly likely not to be a side effect of the vaccine,” he said. “In order to properly deal with this, a careful approach from the media is required. In short,’natural death’ is’a vaccine that occurs naturally’. He pointed out that there is no’causal relationship’.
Professor Jeong emphasized the point, “▲Breaking news competition is meaningless ▲If controversy arises, the dead become more difficult ▲ Scientific verification takes time”, and “I ask the journalists to stop the competition.” Revealed.
Professor Jae-gap Lee also appealed to the media to keep the four propositions in the vaccine-related report below through a Facebook post posted on the morning of the 3rd.
1. Reports of adverse vaccine reactions for which the causal relationship is not clear should not be subject to sensational titles.
2. Until causal relations are confirmed, reports of reserved attitudes should be made.
3. The opinion of a vaccine expert must be cited.
4. You should never quote unscientific comments from politicians.
“As if I waited, the breaking news competition… It’s surprising that it started again.”
Professor Kim Dong-hyun of the Department of Social Medicine at Hallym University Medical School (Chairman of the Korean Epidemiology Association) said in a phone call with “The media emphasized several times that we should not report vaccine distrust. However, only looking at the phenomenon that appeared, it is sending out a breaking news saying, “I got a vaccine and died.
Professor Kim said, “In the situation in Korea that has just begun vaccination, this media report has no choice but to have a bad influence on the vaccination participation rate,” he said. “It is very anti-public interest to send out breaking news as if waiting.”
“It’s very frustrating. There were similar suspicions in foreign countries, but there was no causal relationship when I investigated it. If so, you can judge’Let’s watch it once…”