Original title: Taiwanese couple found the vaccine has expired 5 days after vaccination with AstraZeneca
Overseas Network, October 13th Taipei City Councillor Lin Yingmeng broke the news on the 13th that a couple in Da’an District, Taipei, made an appointment online on October 4 for the AstraZeneca vaccine given to Taiwan by Japan, and completed the injection on October 8. After the two went home, they checked the batch number and found out that they had received an expired vaccine. The couple were worried about this and called on Mayor Ke Wenzhe to conduct a thorough investigation.
According to Taiwan’s “Lianhe News” report, Lin Yingmeng pointed out that the 50-year-old couple made an appointment for vaccination according to the procedure. Lot number K004C vaccine expired for 5 days.Lin Yingmeng said that according to the information from Taiwan’s Department of Disease Control and the Bureau of Health, this batch of K004C vaccine was a donation of AstraZeneca vaccine from Japan. Major hospital clinics.
Lin Yingmeng questioned that the Taiwan authorities once assured the public that they would “check the hospitals and will not release the vaccines until they expire.” This action is simply a breakthrough. “How on earth is it managed? If there is an inventory, this kind of thing will happen?” “At present, she knows that two residents of Da’an who have made an appointment have been victimized. Lin Yingmeng said that if the hospital said it was “misplantation of information,” but the vaccine has been injected into the human body, the Health Bureau should publish sufficient evidence and investigation results. Otherwise, how can the public know whether other batches are also “misplantation”? How do citizens know that the batch number displayed by the system is not expired?
Lin Yingmeng said that the AstraZeneca vaccine has not yet completed the third phase of the trial. It is unknown what risks will be caused by the expired vaccine, whether the efficacy will continue or whether it will endanger health. The Taiwan authorities should take the responsibility to actively check all expired vaccines on the system, clarify what went wrong in the procedures, and punish relevant units, proactively contact the victims, track their health conditions and make compensation. They should not wait for the citizens to apply before accepting them. , Ren the public in a state of panic.(Overseas Net Wu Qian)
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