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was a report that a 7-month-old baby who went to get a flu shot was incorrectly vaccinated with the Corona 19 Moderna vaccine at the hospital. Parents of babies complain that they do not know when and what side effects will occur, and if problems arise later, there is no way to prove that it is due to the vaccine.
Reporter Chan-geun Park listened to the detailed story.
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Jo, an office worker in his 30s, visited a pediatrician in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province with his 7-month-old daughter and wife in September.
My wife was planning to get the first dose of Moderna, and the baby would get a flu shot.
However, right after giving the baby an injection, I heard an absurd explanation from the hospital that Moderna gave the wrong injection.
[Mr. Jo/Moderna, the father of the wrong inoculation baby: As soon as I got it in my hand, I gave the child an injection right away. That was the corona vaccine that should be given to mothers now.] There
is no known case of vaccinating a baby with a corona vaccine in Korea yet, and no statistics on adverse reactions and side effects have been accumulated when inoculating infants.
Moreover, 100 micrograms of the mRNA component that causes vaccine effects and side effects at the same time is present in a single serving.
Moderna also has a higher risk of actual heart complications, more than three times as many as the Pfizer vaccine, according to research.
The baby is fortunately healthy, but the parents do not know when and what side effects will occur, and it is the victim's responsibility to prove that the side effects are due to the vaccine.
The hospital acknowledged negligence, saying that the mother was taking care of her newborn baby, so she accidentally gave the wrong injection while trying to provide convenience to her in one room, but the level of alimony is expected to be covered in the trial.
(Video coverage: Kim Nam-seong, video editing: So Ji-hye, CG: Lee Yeon-hee, Kang Yu-ra)