SINGAPORE: It is not in the interest of the Ministry of Health (MOH) or the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) to hide adverse events from COVID-19 vaccinations, the ministry said on Saturday (Sep 4).
"As a responsible healthcare regulatory authority, it is imperative to assess whether all reported (adverse events) or deaths are linked to vaccination since the vaccines are still only provisionally approved by HSA," said MOH.
"That said, to date, there have not been any deaths found to be directly linked to vaccination. There have been deaths that were due to concurrent medical conditions unrelated to vaccination."
The ministry was responding to a Facebook post by user Iris Koh, who claimed to know people who had died after they took the vaccine.
She said "someone from hardware zone" had created a set of statistics showing the current death rates in Singapore. She called on authorities to "explain" the "sudden spike in death numbers".
“Whenever an adverse event arises after an individual is vaccinated, we carefully evaluate the circumstances and defer to expert opinion whether the adverse event is plausibly linked to vaccination or not,” MOH said.
“If a death occurs, we will also defer to the coroner who adjudicates and determines what the cause of death is, with the benefit of post-mortem findings."
As of Thursday, 80 per cent of Singapore's population has completed the full vaccination regimen, while 83 per cent has received at least one dose.
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"As a responsible healthcare regulatory authority, it is imperative to assess whether all reported (adverse events) or deaths are linked to vaccination since the vaccines are still only provisionally approved by HSA," said MOH.
"That said, to date, there have not been any deaths found to be directly linked to vaccination. There have been deaths that were due to concurrent medical conditions unrelated to vaccination."
The ministry was responding to a Facebook post by user Iris Koh, who claimed to know people who had died after they took the vaccine.
She said "someone from hardware zone" had created a set of statistics showing the current death rates in Singapore. She called on authorities to "explain" the "sudden spike in death numbers".
“Whenever an adverse event arises after an individual is vaccinated, we carefully evaluate the circumstances and defer to expert opinion whether the adverse event is plausibly linked to vaccination or not,” MOH said.
“If a death occurs, we will also defer to the coroner who adjudicates and determines what the cause of death is, with the benefit of post-mortem findings."
As of Thursday, 80 per cent of Singapore's population has completed the full vaccination regimen, while 83 per cent has received at least one dose.
Continue reading...