The death toll rose to 36! The Korean government makes a decision tonight

The death toll rose to 36! The Korean government makes a decision tonight 

According to news from Yonhap News Agency and South Korea’s Nucis News Agency on the 23rd, as of 1 pm local time on the 23rd, the death toll after influenza vaccination in South Korea rose to 36. The South Korean health department will announce whether to stop the influenza vaccination plan at 7 pm local time tonight.

Yonhap News Agency said that although the death toll has risen, the correlation between vaccination and death has not yet been confirmed. In response to 36 deaths, the Korean Agency for Disease Control explained that this is a purely reported statistical data when the relationship between influenza vaccination and death has not been ascertained. The report also cited the opinions of some experts that the correlation between influenza vaccination and death may be small. The report also said that a South Korean forensic doctor found after an autopsy that a 17-year-old boy died two days after receiving the flu vaccine. The cause of death has nothing to do with the vaccination.

In response to the rising number of deaths, the South Korean News Agency said that the South Korean health department invited experts and others to hold a meeting on the morning of the 23rd to discuss the relationship between death and vaccination. In the afternoon, it was discussed whether to continue the influenza vaccination plan. The results will be announced at 7pm. On the previous day (22nd), the South Korean health department stated that no deaths were found to be directly related to the vaccine, and that it would continue to promote the free influenza vaccination program.

In order to reduce the burden of the medical system in responding to the new crown epidemic and winter flu at the same time, South Korea expanded its influenza vaccination program this year and plans to provide free vaccinations to approximately 19 million young people and the elderly. When the plan was launched at the end of September, it was discovered that during the delivery of about 5 million doses of free vaccines, the entire process of refrigeration failed to comply with the specifications, so it was suspended for three weeks and restarted on the 13th.2020/10