Chinese vaccine alleged to be the "most unsafe in the world"

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China approved Sinopharm’s coronavirus vaccine in late December and plans to inoculate 50 million by mid-February

A Chinese vaccine expert has published a hasty apology and deleted a message to his nearly five million social media followers which said the country’s first approved vaccine was the “most unsafe in the world”.

The post by Tao Lina, who practises in Shanghai, said the jab developed by Beijing’s state-run Sinopharm had 73 listed side-effects including pain around the injection area, headache, high blood pressure, loss of vision and taste, as well as incontinence. He described the drug’s potential adverse impact as “unprecedented”. He compared it with the Pfizer-Biontech vaccine, which lists 12 side-effects including chills and joint pains.
The article on Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter, disappeared yesterday, followed by his apology.

 

[Tish]

Good Grief.
Doesn't surprise me that the post was deleted.

 

[Aunt Marg]

Good Grief.
Doesn't surprise me that the post was deleted.

"Good grief" is right.

 

[StarSong]

Wonder if Tao Lina will also disappear...

 

[chic]

What a shock, right?

 

[Rosemarie]

It's interesting that separate laboratories have developed a vaccine against the same virus, and yet the vaccines are different. Wouldn't you think they would all end up with the same vaccine?

 

[terry123]

We will not hear from him again!

 

[Tommy]

It's interesting that separate laboratories have developed a vaccine against the same virus, and yet the vaccines are different. Wouldn't you think they would all end up with the same vaccine?

They are made of different things using different processes and work in different ways.

 

[Sunny]

I don't know anything about this vaccine one way or the other, but the 73 side effects rang a bell. I recently got a prescription for a mild, inocuous medication to treat insomnia. It came with 6 pages(!) of warnings and side effects!

I immediately called the doctor, and he said the lawyers require that every side effect that anyone ever reported, even if it's one person out of thousands, has to be printed on the list of side effects. So this Chinese vaccine could be in that category.

P.S. I've been taking this marvelous little pill every night and sleep like a baby, with absolutely no side effects at all.

 

[StarSong]

P.S. I've been taking this marvelous little pill every night and sleep like a baby, with absolutely no side effects at all

Although I know what you meant by this, my experience with babies is that they wake up screaming every few hours. Not the kind of sleep I yearn for.