As of 8 pm on August 15, 2021, the proportion of the population with about 750 people in Hong Kong who have received the full two-dose vaccine has reached 42.7%. If progress goes well, Hong Kong will reach herd immunity by October or the end of this year.
However, Hong Kong and Germany have recently given citizens the wrong injections or random injections, which has caused concerns among vaccinators.
Get two shots of the vaccine at a time
On the afternoon of August 11, a 65-year-old man in Hong Kong was given two consecutive injections of BioNTech vaccine at a local vaccination center. Afterwards, he was sober, with arm pain and high blood pressure, he was sent to the hospital for observation.
He recalled to the Hong Kong media “Hong Kong 01”: “After the nurse rubbed his arm with alcohol cotton, he gave the first injection and told me (with cotton) to hold (needle), and then (nurse) rubbed his arm with alcohol cotton. , I took the second shot. I asked him, “Is it two shots?” He ignored me, he said yes, go to the rest area. I went to the rest area to sit down, and he came back and asked after a while I,’Uncle, did I get you two shots?’. I said,’Yes, you got two shots.'”
The man had basic diseases, high blood pressure and cholesterol. He was very worried afterwards, and he called the police and notified the Hong Kong Department of Health. He was sent to the hospital for observation.
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At present, the nurse has been suspended from all duties, and its operating agency said that the nurse’s procedure was wrong. It will strengthen the management and supervision of the working procedures of all medical staff present to ensure safety.
Xu Shuchang, a member of the Hong Kong Vaccine Advisory Committee and a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, said bluntly that it is difficult to understand why this medical error occurred. He explained that if there is no immediate severe allergic reaction, the problem is not big. After 21 days have passed, a second injection is still required.
The outside world is paying attention to the man’s follow-up situation. Peng Hongchang, director of the Hong Kong Association of Community Organizations, said that he hopes that the operating organization and the Hong Kong Department of Health will investigate this incident in depth, and examine how to prevent it from happening again and restore the confidence of the public. He also said that although each nurse has an upper limit on the number of vaccination, but the incident occurred at 5 pm, the nurse may not be concentrated, it is recommended that the vaccination center let the nurse rest every few hours to avoid negligence due to lack of energy.
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I wanted to get a contraceptive shot and was vaccinated with Kexing vaccine
In early August, a 32-year-old woman from Hong Kong went to a local private doctor’s clinic to get a contraceptive injection, but the doctor mistakenly injected her with the Coxing vaccination. Afterwards, the doctor also planned to give the contraceptive injection immediately, but the person refused on the spot.
The woman had been given two injections of Fubitai vaccine. She had high blood pressure, rapid heartbeat and headache after being mistakenly given Kexing vaccine. She angrily denounced the doctor’s behavior as a serious medical accident and lodged a complaint with the Hong Kong Government Department of Health.
It is not yet known whether the woman has other side effects. Although the world medical team is studying mixed vaccines and boosters to deal with the constantly mutating new coronavirus, the woman was given the third shot of the vaccine under unknown circumstances, which is a medical accident. Her follow-up reaction remains to be seen.
“Wrong shot”
In April of this year, a British man who had originally made an appointment to be vaccinated with the German Fubitai vaccine was vaccinated with the Chinese Coxing Vaccine.
The 55-year-old Scotsman David Allardice (David Allardice) has an underlying disease, leukemia (blood cancer). He had made an appointment for vaccination with Fubitai vaccine, but was vaccinated with Kexing vaccine because he went to the wrong vaccination center.
The Hong Kong government claimed that the staff at the reception desk of the incident failed to identify the names of the different vaccination centers indicated on the victim’s phone appointment SMS. However, a government spokesperson emphasized that the vaccinators will be issued with Kexing vaccine materials, and the medical staff will again seek the consent of the vaccinators before the injection.
The Hong Kong media quoted the spokesperson as saying: “Although the vaccine was given with the consent of the vaccinators, I am sorry for the incident.”
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Use salt water as a vaccine
Hong Kong is not the only place where flaws or medical accidents occurred during the vaccination process. In Germany, the behavior of a nurse has affected more than 8,000 vaccinators.
Authorities in northern Germany have asked more than 8,000 people to repeat the new crown vaccine because a nurse is suspected of injecting them with saline instead of a vaccine.
The police are investigating the behavior of the nurse.
It is understood that only 6 people were injected with harmless salt water there in March and April. Many of the affected people are elderly people over 70 years old, but they are a high-risk group in the new crown pandemic.
The Süddeutsche Zeitung quoted inspector Peter Beer as saying that the 40-year-old woman had been sharing “key information about the new crown epidemic” on social media and criticizing the government’s social restrictions to curb the spread of the virus.
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The German regional broadcaster NDR stated that 8,557 people were required to be vaccinated again. So far, about 3,600 new appointments have been confirmed.
In April this year, the nurse admitted to injecting physiological saline into six people to cover up the fact that she dropped the vaccine bottle on the ground.
But as the police investigation unfolded, it became clear that more people were injected with saline instead of Pfizer vaccine.
The police did not rule out political motives for the nurse to do so, although her lawyer rejected this statement and disputed the size of the salt water submitted by the police.
More witnesses are being questioned, and so far there have been no allegations in this case.
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