Need to determine the causal relationship between the new crown vaccine and death as soon as possible?

In February 2021, Japan officially launched the COVID-19 vaccine (COVID-19 vaccine) for nearly a year, and the population after 2 doses is about to exceed 100 million, accounting for about 76.2% of the total population (including non-Japanese nationals), and those over 65 years old The vaccination coverage rate for the elderly is as high as 91.3%. Today, the number of confirmed cases has dropped significantly, and the "emergency declaration" has been lifted across the country, including Tokyo, which is the most severely affected. In addition to increasing vaccine coverage, Japan has not implemented other obvious new epidemic prevention measures. Purely in terms of results, universal vaccination is indeed effective in preventing the spread of the new coronary pneumonia virus.

However, the bitter fruit of national vaccination has also begun to emerge in front of the people. Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (similar to Taiwan's Ministry of Health and Welfare) announced that it implements vaccination victim relief measures in accordance with the Vaccination Law, and government compensation can be paid for health injuries caused by vaccination. As of November, there have been 4 batches, and a total of 273 people with severe side effects have been recognized by the government and received compensation for medical expenses. The content of payment includes the medical expenses that have been paid plus the subsidy for entering and leaving the hospital or hospitalization. If you remain disabled, you can also receive a disability annuity for life. See the table below for details.

However, due to the vaccination, more than 1,300 people died shortly after the vaccination, and the family members of the deceased have not yet been recognized by the government and received 44.2 million + 212,000 yen for death and funeral expenses.

The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (abbreviation of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare) stated that the causal relationship between the death and the vaccine cannot be established. Looking at the survey report published by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, most of the deceased are the elderly and suffer from underlying diseases (various chronic diseases, etc.), and the symptoms of death are mostly heart, lung and brain-related problems, but there are also young people who have no underlying diseases but are vaccinated Died shortly after.

Why can't a causal link between death and vaccine be established?

A reporter interviewed Kimura AYUMI (forensic scientist), a lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine of the International University of Medical and Welfare. She said that at this stage, there are more important issues before continuing to increase the coverage of vaccination, and the cause of death of the cases of death after vaccination has been submitted. In September when she was interviewed, among the 991 deaths from February to August, 0 cases could be determined to have a causal relationship between the vaccine and the death, 5 cases had no causal relationship with the vaccine, and 986 cases could not be determined due to insufficient information. In most cases, it is impossible to determine whether there is a causal relationship.

Forensic Kimura believes that the main purpose of investigating the cause of death is to reduce the number of deaths. If you can know what happens in the body of the person after the vaccination, it will lead to death. Or know what major symptoms will occur after vaccination, and take preventive measures before they occur. It can be said that investigating the cause of death is for the sake of the living .

Only the identification unit does not have enough information to determine the cause of death, because only a few cases, such as acute allergic symptoms, can be confirmed by the appearance of the human body. Even though it has been confirmed internationally that myocarditis or thrombosis are prone to occur after vaccination, these diseases are difficult to judge by appearance. If the cause of death can be found out through pathological autopsy, the forensic autopsy rate in Japan is only 1.6% (all 1.6% of the total number of corpses, and an autopsy rate of 11.5% for unnatural deaths handled by the police, 2019 data. For comparison, Sweden is nearly 90%, and the UK is over 40%). Japan's dissection rate is so low, the main reason is that there is no budget, and the shortage of forensic doctors is also a bottleneck. Don't look at Japanese detective mystery dramas. It seems that as soon as there is a death incident, you can almost see forensic doctors appearing. In fact, there are only about 150 full-time forensic doctors in Japan.

Government departments such as the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare are unable to clarify whether the death has a causal relationship with the vaccine, and to avoid the public's reluctance to vaccinate due to concerns about the safety of the vaccine, which hinders the improvement of vaccine coverage, and will not actively investigate the causal relationship. .

However, can the family of the deceased accept such a result? Needless to say, it is definitely not acceptable. Especially in the absence of underlying diseases, healthy young people died suddenly shortly after vaccination. Hiroyuki Okamoto's father in Hiroshima Prefecture decided to show his real name for an interview with NHK. He said that his 30-year-old son died silently in his room three days after receiving the second dose of the vaccine. Even if the autopsy was performed, the cause of death column of the autopsy results has only two words " unknown ". The relevant information will be sent to the expert meeting of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare to review the causal relationship between death and vaccine. The assessment results have been described above and cannot be judged .

Because of the alarming rate of spread of the new coronavirus this time, the epidemic has lasted for a long time. In the absence of specific drugs, vaccination can be said to be the only way. Therefore, the pressure of peer vaccination in Japanese society is unprecedentedly high. If you were in such a social atmosphere, what choices would you make?

2021/11/25 posted.