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The Strange Sinovac Vaccine Phenomenon, Countries Report Increased
Cases After Using Vaccine

BY EVA ZHAO

April 3, 2021

The Hong Kong government recently rolled out a large-scale vaccination
plan against the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known
as COVID-19, but its been mired by frequent reports of serious adverse
reactions. In just one month, 13 people died in Hong Kong after being
inoculated, 11 of whom had been injected with the Sinovac vaccine, a
Chinese domestically made vaccine.

The CCP has not reported a single case of serious side effects or
death after it announced the administering of 100 million doses of the
Sinovac vaccine in China on March 28.

But there are four strange phenomena of the Chinese Sinovac vaccine,
analyzed as follows.


No Deaths Reported in China

The first reported death after vaccination in Hong Kong occurred on
Feb. 28. On March 28, within just one short month, 13 people in Hong
Kong, aged 55 to 80, died after receiving the vaccination. Eleven of
them were given the Sinovac shots, while the other two had received
BioNTech.

In addition, an elderly woman in her eighties died at home the day
after taking the Sinovac vaccine on March 20, but the Hong Kong
Department of Health did not report it nor publicize the incident. The
Department of Health responded in the early hours of March 31 that
there was no direct causal relationship between her death and
vaccination, thus not fulfilling the reporting criteria of AEFIs
(Adverse Events Following Immunization).

In an interview with The Epoch Times, Yuen Hoi Man, deputy spokesman
for the medical policy of the Democratic Party of Hong Kong,
criticized the government for depriving the public of the right to
know by not releasing the information, which also affects public
confidence in vaccines. He said that even if there is no direct
relationship, the government should be truthful when an indirect
relationship cannot be ruled out.

Dr. Cheung Wai Lit, a Chinese medicine doctor, in an interview with
The Epoch Times, also said that he suspected that there were other
cases of death after receiving the Chinese vaccine, but there is no
way for outsiders to confirm it.

In response to the death of 13 people in Hong Kong after receiving the
vaccine, authorities responded on March 30, saying that current data
show that most of the cases died of cardiovascular disease and none of
the individual cases were directly related to the vaccination.

However, Law Cheuk You, staff and vice-chairman of Hong Kong Hospital
Authority, said in an interview with The Epoch Times, that generally
speaking, the possibility of some indirect side effects is not to be
completely ruled out, Law said, in fact, many drugs have [side
effects].

Law said that there are cases of death after COVID-19 vaccination in
other countries. But even in cases that may not have a direct
relationship, the authorities will still give data. With the data, it
gives others the option to choose the appropriate measures.

On March 30, Germany announced that as of March 29, more than 2.7
million people had received the AstraZeneca vaccine and that 31 people
developed blood clots, with 9 deaths. The German government,
therefore, decided to suspend the vaccine for people under the age of
60.

On March 29, Canada also announced that it is suspending the use of
the AstraZeneca vaccine for people under the age of 55 following the
reports of rare blood clots, although there are no relevant cases in
the country for the time being.

The Hong Kong government, however, although it recently suspended the
use of BioNTech shots due to packaging defects, has yet to call off
the use of the Sinovac vaccine, after 11 deaths out of a total of
about 450,000 people vaccinated in a month. This has caused public
concern.

Law said that theres insufficient statistical data on the use of the
Sinovac vaccine for people over 60 years old and that its Phase III
clinical data has not been published in peer-reviewed medical
journals. Even so, the Hong Kong government still asks the elderly to
receive the vaccine. He called on the public to only receive vaccines
that have sufficient clinical data.

Yuen Hoi Man also suggested suspending the use of the Sinovac vaccine
for people over 60 and those with chronic illnesses.

It is worth noting that the CCPs National Health Commission announced
on March 28 that more than 100 million doses of its domestic vaccines
had been administered in China, but it did not report any deaths or
serious side effects. At the same time, however, any comments about
the adverse effects of the vaccines are quickly deleted from Chinas
internet.


Outbreak Intensifies in Countries Using Sinovac Vaccines

The United Kingdom was the first country to start COVID-19
vaccinations, approving the use of the BioNTech vaccine in December
before introducing the AstraZeneca vaccine in January this year. Their
outbreak gradually eased after Jan. 9. The UK recorded 4,715 cases on
March 27, down significantly from 6,187 cases the day before. In the
United States and Israel, where the BioNTech vaccine was also chosen
as the main vaccine, the epidemic also slowed down significantly after
vaccination.

However, the number of confirmed cases in Chile, Turkey, and Pakistan,
which chose to receive the Chinese Sinovac vaccine, has increased.

Chile administered nearly 9 million doses of the Sinovac vaccines in
February, with an average of 47 doses per 100 people, making it the
country with the highest vaccination rate in South America. However,
the number of positive test results recorded in Chile rose instead of
fell, and a new high of 7,626 cases was recorded in a single day on
March 26, leading to a tight supply of hospital beds and a recent
lockdown of the capital city of Santiago.

Turkey started to administer Sinovac vaccines in mid-January and at
least eight million people have been injected with the vaccine,
accounting for more than 10 percent of the population. But their case
numbers also rebounded in late February, with 37,303 new cases
recorded on March 30, the highest single-day figure since the outbreak
on March 11 last year. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on
April 2 that there would be a curfew during the weekends throughout
the month of Ramadan.

In addition, Pakistan, which has been using the Chinese vaccine since
early February, is now experiencing a third wave of the pandemic, with
the national positivity ratio rising to 11 percent, the highest level
since the outbreak. More than 20 cities have been closed due to the
severity of the outbreak.

Pakistani President Arif Alvi wrote on March 29 that he tested
positive after receiving the first dose of a vaccine produced by the
Chinese National Pharmaceutical Group Corp on March 15. Prior to that,
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan also tested positive for the virus
on March 18, two days after receiving his first dose of the vaccine
manufactured by the same Chinese company.

Lin Xiaoxu, a former virology researcher at the Walter Reed Army
Institute of Research, said that the CCP claimed in February that 20
million people in mainland China had received the vaccine, but it has
not released any real analysis of the effectiveness rate. For
countries that inject the vaccine produced by Chinas Sinovac Biotech
or National Pharmaceutical Group Corp, they should first ask China to
provide such data on how much protection the Chinese have after
receiving the vaccine, Lin said.


Adverse Reaction Rate Similar to Placebo

At present, the Sinovac vaccine has only released clinical study data
for Phase I and Phase II, and the relevant data show that the rate of
adverse reactions is only about 20 percent, a lower figure than other
vaccines. Dr. Dong Yuhong, a European virologist and chief scientific
officer in a Swiss Biotech company, said that, from an academic point
of view, there are two questionable points about the Sinovac data.

First, in various other COVID-19 vaccines, the ratio of side effects
in the vaccination group is usually significantly higher than that in
the placebo group. But the ratio of side effects post-vaccination of
Sinovac was similar to that of the placebo injection. Some side
effects were even lower in the vaccination group than in the placebo
group.

Second, generally speaking, the more the injected doses, the more side
effects there are. This phenomenon can be seen in clinical studies of
other vaccines and is called dose correlation. However, from the
results of the Sinovac vaccine study, there seems to be no such
pattern. Side effects in some low-dose groups are higher than those of
higher-dose groups.

Dr. Dong said that scientists have been expecting the Phase III
clinical data of Sinovac, but unfortunately, they have yet to see its
publication, and the number of subjects enrolled in its Phase I-II
clinical study is relatively small, so it is difficult to evaluate the
adverse events of the Sinovac vaccine.

Although the CCP released data on the side effects of the Sinovac
vaccine in clinical trials that is similar to those of the placebo
group, on Jan. 6, state-run CCP media Xinhua reported that pregnant
and nursing women are not allowed to receive the domestically made
vaccine. It even recommends women postpone their pregnancy for three
months after receiving the vaccine.

A resident in mainland China also received a notice from his local
community, saying that pregnancy should be postponed to six months
after receiving the vaccine, implying that the Chinese vaccine may
have serious side effects on fertility.

Dr. Cheung Wai Lit said that in the process of rolling up vaccination
on a large scale in China, the CCP kept issuing new guidelines and
principles.

Those who administer vaccines now are actually crossing a river by
feeling for stones, using human bodies for clinical tests, Dr. Cheung said.


Politicized Mandatory Vaccination

Since the Chinese vaccine data lacks transparency, people are
concerned about the safety of the vaccines. There were news reports of
low acceptance of the vaccines in Shanghai and other first-tier
cities. As of March 27, the vaccination rate in China was only 7
percent.

Recently, The Epoch Times obtained a document showing that, in order
to speed up the vaccination rate, the CCP politicized the vaccine and
forced people to vaccinate.

This internal document comes from a large private enterprise,
Chongqing Sokon Industry Group. It was titled, Notice on Strengthening
Epidemic Prevention and Control. The notice stated: All units must
stand at the height of political considerations, follow the principle
of everyone must take it with strict implementation, and hold
responsibility. The Group will pursue any unit and individual that
fails to advance the new COVID vaccination work for accountability.

Outside of large enterprises, the scope of compulsory vaccination with
Chinese-made vaccines has begun to expand. Mr. Liu, a vegetable
merchant at Honggang Market in Sanya City, Hainan, told The Epoch
Times that proof of vaccination is now required to enter the market.
The entire Sanya is now subject to vaccinations, it is mandatory.

Mr. Wu, a mainland Chinese human rights lawyer, revealed in an
interview with The Epoch Times reporter cited previous vaccine
problems in China and said: The (Chinese vaccine) safety, quality, and
effectiveness are very low. In the past, there were children who
become disabled and mentally retarded after vaccination. [To develop
the vaccines] in such a short time, they knew the quality was not
good, but still forced over a billion Chinese people to accept it. It
is too scary. It is really treating people's lives as a joke.

Earlier, former head of the National Institute of Health of Peru,
Ernesto Bustamante, said in a local TV program that Sinopharms Wuhan
strain vaccine had only 33 percent effectiveness, while the Beijing
strain vaccine had 11.5 percent. Sinovac was also reported to be only
50.4 percent effective according to Brazil's data. The frequent
outbreaks of defective vaccines and fake vaccines in China over the
years are even more common and shocking.

In 2018, Changsheng Biotechnology sold over 250,000 substandard doses
of the DTap vaccine (a combination vaccine for young children to
develop immunity against diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus). In 2013,
there were many cases of infant deaths caused by a hepatitis B vaccine
injection in southern China. In 2007, the Shanxi vaccine incident
caused nearly 100 children to be seriously disabled or killed. An in
2005, an abnormal hepatitis A vaccine incident in Anhui resulted in 1
death and 215 adverse reactions.
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