On Dec. 22, a video of a speech by Zhang Wenhong, director of the Infection Department at Huashan Hospital, in which he told leading cadres to get vaccinated first went viral on the Internet, sparking concern when most mainlanders had no confidence in domestic vaccines and were unwilling to do so.
A few days ago the mainland vaccine opened, the official announced a two-step strategy, the first step mainly for some key people, the second part of the eligible should receive as much as possible. However, the mainland vaccine is still in the third phase of clinical, in the case of most people are not willing to play, Huashan Hospital infection department director Zhang Wenhong suggested that let the leading cadres to play the vaccine first, in the network sparked attention.
On the 22nd, a nearly one-minute video by Zhang Wenhong, director of the Infection Department of Huashan Hospital affiliated with Fudan University on the mainland, circulated on the Internet. In the video, Zhang Wenhong talked about the vaccination problem, “you have ten percent vaccination or twenty percent vaccination, in fact, we are not in a hurry. Once the world’s epidemic is completely under control and the doors of the world start to open, I’ll be honest with you, you don’t even need to ask to be vaccinated, you’ll be crying to be vaccinated yourself.”
He also said, “So who is going to should fight first today? I personally feel that now to fight is the leading cadres to fight first …… Why do you say so? Because the masses were born once the Chinese Communist Party virus does not matter, our leading cadres themselves infected, I tell you this is a scandal …… who in this case the greatest risk, everyone to assess for themselves, your position to decide ……”
Recently, a netizen disclosed that the epidemic prevention and control command in Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province, issued an “urgent notice on the supplementary mapping of key populations for vaccination against the new coronavirus,” and mapped the local Communist Party officials for vaccination, with the result that not a single person signed up. Netizens jokingly said, “It’s better to know your own people and not even play for free.”
In November, Shanghai conducted an emergency mapping of some hospitals and enterprises to register information on those willing to be vaccinated, and found that most people, including medical and nursing staff, were unwilling to be vaccinated and had no confidence in mainland vaccines, including Yangpu District Chinese Medicine Hospital, where more than 90% of medical and nursing staff refused to be vaccinated.
Since the quality of mainland vaccines is generally not well regarded, Zhang Wenhong’s suggestion that leading cadres should be vaccinated first is considered to carry a certain sense of ridicule.
True to form, in January this year, when the infection department of Huashan Hospital changed its posts, Zhang Wenhong said that one cannot bully people who listen to one’s words, so this time all the doctors in the posts were replaced with all the Communist Party members in the department.
He also said, “Sorry, now you go up to me immediately. Whether you agree or disagree, you have to go up there.” And said, “There is no bargaining.”
This speech also caused hot debate among netizens at the time, with some saying, “Must support, let the leading cadres go up first.”
Three days ago, on the 19th, the National health Commission of the Communist Party of China launched a “two-step” vaccination strategy for China.
The first step is to target some key populations, including workers in imported cold chain, port quarantine, ship pilotage, airline aircrew, fresh market, public transportation, medical and disease control, and those who travel to medium and high-risk countries or regions for work or study.
The second step, eligible people are able to achieve the best possible connection.
The mainland currently has five domestic new crown vaccines in Phase III, including inactivated vaccine, recombinant protein vaccine, adenovirus vector vaccine, attenuated influenza virus vector vaccine and nucleic acid vaccine.
At least 17 employees of mainland central enterprises sent abroad to Angola are currently infected with the disease, and in Pančevo, also in Serbia, more than four hundred Chinese employees of the local project department of Tianjin Electric Power Construction Company are known to have confirmed about 300 people. Most of them were vaccinated against the virus by the central enterprise “Sinopharm” before they left the country according to the national policy. In addition, there were also rumors that 47 Chinese employees in Uganda, Africa, had contracted the disease there.
Dr. Lin Xiaoxu, a former virology researcher at the U.S. Army Research Institute, said that Sinopharm’s vaccine against the Chinese communist virus (Wuhan pneumonia) is still in its third clinical phase, so there is no scientific conclusion as to whether the vaccine has sufficient protection against the virus. Now these laborers who are out there are vaccinated, but after being out there for a long time, as soon as someone is infected, it spreads among their own labor force, which is something that can easily happen.”
He believes that “this vaccination that may not be effective will also create the illusion that it’s okay, but instead lose some of the proper protective measures, vigilance.”
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