On the morning of the 27th, medical staff at the National Medical Center’s Central Vaccination Center in Euljiro, Jung-gu, Seoul, are receiving the Pfizer vaccine. News 1
There is a controversy over the permission of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to increase the number of vaccinations per vial (glass container for injection) of a novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) vaccine used in Korea at the site. Among experts, there were voices of concern that “the number of vaccinations should not be increased unreasonably.”
The authorities’ guidance is that the number of people vaccinated per bottle for Pfizer vaccine can be increased from 6 to 7 and the AstraZeneca (AZ) vaccine can be increased from 10 to 11 to 12.
AZ 10 → 12, Pfizer 6 → 7
According to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the 28th, the corona19 vaccination response promotion team distributed the same information to vaccination sites nationwide on the previous day. The promotion team explained in the official letter, “When using a Low Dead Space (LDS) syringe, if the remaining amount remains after the inoculation for the recommended number of inoculations per vial, additional inoculation is possible in order to reduce the waste amount.” “To eliminate or reduce the amount of waste,” the authorities explained. However, the remaining amount of vaccination is not mandatory.
“Additional vaccination thanks to the K-syringe”
The minimum residual type syringe is a special syringe that has little space between the piston and the needle to minimize discarded vaccine. Health authorities have supplied or donated from domestic manufacturers and have supplied 670,000 minimal residual syringes to inoculation institutions so far.
The number of vaccinations per bottle of corona vaccine increased Graphic = Reporter Jaemin Shin [email protected]
With the passport as the center, the least residual syringe is called the so-called’K-syringe’, and positive comments are poured out. Minister of Health and Welfare Policy Adviser Yeo Jun-seong said on SNS on the 27th, “The combination of a special syringe and the high skills of medical staff has allowed us to inoculate one or two more people per vial.” In a media interview, a preliminary candidate for Seoul Mayor Park Young-seon of the Democratic Party said, “The K-syringe is a syringe that will fit 5 people, 6 people, and 1.2 million people if 1 million people are hit.
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However, some of the experts in the field are voiced with concern. Eom Joong-sik, a professor of infectious medicine at Gachon University Gil Hospital, said, “If you pull out several times from one vial and inject it, you will naturally increase the risk of infection.” Pointed out. “It is said that the vaccine has been sufficiently secured, but it is questionable whether it is necessary to do this. The domestic situation is different from that of Europe or the United States, where vaccination is urgently required.”
Pfizer vaccine is waiting for thawing at room temperature in the vaccination room of the Central Vaccination Center at the National Central Medical Center in Jung-gu, Seoul on the morning of the 27th when the Pfizer vaccination for the treatment of Corona 19 patients began. Photo Joint Report Group
Confusion can also increase in frontline health centers, where the number of vaccinations per day is set and time is adjusted. Public health centers by local governments are inoculating care facility officials in units of 10 people. A public health doctor working at a public health center in the metropolitan area said, “Because we call the number of vaccinations a day in multiples of 10, it makes no sense to increase the number of vaccinations per vial by one or two.” Because of this, it is difficult to have a fixed 11 or 12 people match.”
Reporter Jeong Jin-ho [email protected]
