The New York Times reported that officials are devising plans to inject more people, citing emergency use, which amounts to a big bet that the vaccines will eventually prove safe and effective.
While untested vaccines can have harmful side effects, Dr. Kim Mulholland, a pediatrician at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Australia, said: “My concern for company employees is that it may be difficult for them to refuse.”
Since a large number of people in China are being injected with the untested vaccine, it can be said that none of the people receive the vaccine by choice. Companies are reported to have asked people to sign a nondisclosure agreement before injecting the vaccine to prevent them from releasing information to the media.
“It is unclear how many people in China have received coronavirus vaccines. Sinopharm, a Chinese state company with a vaccine candidate in late-stage trials, has said hundreds of thousands of people have received their vaccines. Beijing-based company , said that more than 10,000 people in Beijing had been injected with his vaccine. Separately, he said that almost all of his employees, about 3,000 in all, and their families had taken it, “said The New York Times.
“That [unproven vaccine] it has all kinds of negative consequences … They may be infected and not know it, or they may be spreading the infection because they are relatively asymptomatic if the vaccine works partially, “said Jerome Kim, director of the International Vaccine Institute, saying.
While there is growing concern that China will give the untested vaccine to its people, Zheng, the health official, told China Central Television that during the winter season, “the government may consider expanding the scope of who rated for emergency use, adding people who work in the markets, transportation and service industries, “reported the Times.
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