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So far, more than 1,500 people have reported that they died from the corona vaccine.

However, of these, only two cases were recognized as due to the vaccine, and there are many voices that it is difficult to recognize the causality with the vaccine, especially in the case of patients with underlying diseases.



Reporter Park Byung-il covered the story.



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In August of last year, Jun-kyu Lee's mother had a strange reaction the next morning after receiving the second dose of the vaccine.



[Lee Jun-gyu/Son: There are people who are addicted to drugs.

Drunk, my mother said this.

So she rocked, she rocked her 'mom'...

.]



He suffered a cardiac arrest three times before being transferred to the hospital, and the results of tests such as CT scans were even more shocking.



[Lee Jun-gyu/Son: I have a liver like this, but two-thirds of it is black.

She said she had liver necrosis.]



Eventually, her mother died two days later.



By the way, she says that her mother had a medical examination 20 days before she was vaccinated.



[Lee Jun-gyu/Son: It says everything is normal.

liver, and kidneys.

(Looking here, liver/kidney/cholesterol/anemia tests are normal.)]



However, the result of the causality review was that the vaccine causality could not be recognized, saying that he died due to 4-2 underlying disease, diabetes.



[Lee Jun-gyu/Son: (Did you have severe diabetes?) It wasn't severe.

Twenty days ago, my blood sugar was only 172.]



Therefore, the government's judgment cannot be understood at all.



[Lee Jun-gyu/Son: (Vaccine) If an adverse reaction occurs, the government will take full responsibility, and if there is an underlying disease, it is blamed on the underlying disease



. He complained of severe chest pain and was taken to the hospital.



[Park Eun-sil / Wife: In a short time, my husband had a cardiac arrest.

So, 'I begged Daddy to save me, I can't let him go, please save me' (I begged.)]



Even with earnest appeals, my husband did not come back.



Although her husband had high blood pressure, Eun-sil had to be suspicious of the vaccine as she continued to take medicine and maintain her health.



However, the result of the causality review was 5. The



death was due to an underlying disease, not a vaccine.



[Park Eun-sil/Wife: (The government) told people with underlying diseases to get (vaccine), so they got it, but if they die, they say it's because of the underlying disease, and this doesn't make sense.]



Clinical review by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety for 2 years A specialist who served as a member of the committee also said the government's accreditation scope was too narrow.



[Kang Yun-hee / Former Ministry of Food and Drug Safety Reviewer: If we continue to acknowledge these cases, there is a possibility that the number of cases will increase too much, so the government seems to have decided not to admit it at all at some point.]



It is said that serious adverse reactions were observed in 2 to 3 patients per 20,000 in clinical trials prior to the launch of the coronavirus vaccine.



Assuming that the number of people vaccinated in Korea is 40 million, it is arithmetic that serious adverse reactions can occur in the range of 4,000 to 5,000 people, but the government actually acknowledged that there were fewer than 900 cases.



[Kang Yun-hee / Former Ministry of Food and Drug Safety Reviewer: Usually, pharmaceutical companies exaggerate the effects a little to sell vaccines or drugs, and hide the side effects a little, but it is as if the government made such an error.]



In response, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) Vaccination is essential to prevent the serious progression of the coronavirus, he said, adding that he will continue to expand the scope of compensation and support for vaccine victims.



(VJ: Yoon Taek)