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More than 90 people were reported to have died after receiving an influenza (flu) vaccine this year.
Health officials determined the cause of death for 87 of these and found no association with vaccination. Epidemiological investigations are underway for the remaining seven.
According to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on day 5, a total of 94 cases were reported to have died within days of vaccination before 0 o’clock that day after starting the ‘vaccination against influenza 2020-2021 ‘.
Compared to 88 people reported at 0 o’clock on day 3 two days ago, it increased by 6 people.
By age group, 70 are the most with 40, followed by 38 people aged 80 and over, and 8 people aged 60 and under 60 each. There were 78 people aged 70 years or more, which represents 83.0%.
The time to report death is for people age 70 and over, including 1 person as of October 18, 60 people from October 19 to 25, 24 people from October 26 to November 1, and 9 people from October 2 to November 4th. He focused on the third week of last month, when the free vaccination began.
By region, Seoul and Gyeonggi were the most with 13 people each, followed by Gyeongnam and Jeonbuk (10 each), Daegu (9), Jeonnam and Gyeongbuk (8 each), and 75.5% (71 people) reported in 7 regions. done.
57 patients (60.6%) took 48 hours or more to die after vaccination against influenza. In the case of less than 24 hours, there were 17 (18.1%).
The Agency for Disease Control and Prevention said: “As a result of reviewing epidemiological investigations, basic investigations, and autopsy results in 87 of 94 cases of death, no findings of adverse reactions to vaccines were presumed in all the cases”.
As a result of the damage investigation group’s rapid response meeting held the day before, the Agency for Disease Control and Prevention said: “(For the deceased), worsening of the underlying disease, other obvious causes, were found, other causes that clinically led to death, etc. ” “We decided that it was not a situation to consider retesting the vaccine or stopping the national vaccination project.”
Specifically, there were no cases of ‘anaphylaxis shock’ that appeared after vaccination, and there were no cases of serious adverse reactions even in vaccinators who received the same serial number at the same medical institution on the same day, according to the Agency for Disease Control and Prevention.
The National Institute for Scientific Research completed autopsies on 45 of the 94 deaths the day before and did not perform autopsies on 49 cases.
On the other hand, out of a total of 18,8983,353 people aged 6 months to 12 years, pregnant women, 13 to 18 years and 62 years or older who are eligible for the national free vaccination program, 12.13 million people have completed vaccination so far. It was identified as 1.38 people. The inoculation rate is approximately 63.8%.
Among them, 1,787 cases with adverse reactions such as fever and local reactions were reported after receiving influenza vaccine, but the association with vaccination has not been confirmed.
(Yunhap news)
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