Hong Kong and Singapore Lost Confidence in COVID-19 Vaccines Early in Campaign
New Analysis Shows Concerns over Safety Explained Vaccine Hesitancy
By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH
As a former editor and active research author, I have learned during the pandemic that deep bias favoring COVID-19 vaccination is everywhere, particular in manuscripts accepted to JAMA.
Recently a paper by Lun et al on vaccine acceptance in Hong Kong and Singapore caught my attention. Their results were striking in the period of no mandates. This was the only time when free-choice could be examined.
“In 2020, approximately two-thirds (65.3%[95%CI, 61.7%-68.6%]) of adults in Hong Kong said they would be willing to vaccinate when a vaccine became available. Vaccination willingness then increased to 73.4%(95%CI, 69.0%-77.4%) of individuals, which coincided with positive results from COVID-19 vaccine trials and a local COVID-19 outbreak. However, after the Hong Kong government announced that vaccines from Germany, Mainland China, and the UK were procured and that individuals could not choose which vaccine to receive (a decision that was reversed 12 days later), vaccination willingness dropped to 55.0%(95%CI, 51.3%-58.6%) of individuals. The launch of the vaccination program and a peak in media reports on adverse events following COVID-19 immunization (AEFIs) corresponded with a decline in vaccination willingness to its lowest level (43.6%[95%CI, 40.0%-47.3%]).”
As with many JAMA papers, the real answers are buried in the Supplemental Materials. As you can see, the leading reason accounting for vaccine refusal was concern over safety and this was early on in the campaign.
The point of this analysis is not to be distracted by political views or other factors, it is that the people of these two sophisticated cities knew early the vaccines were unsafe. Therefore, later mandates forced people to take shots they knew could harm them. No one knows what the sociological or political repercussions will be from these revelations.
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Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH
President, McCullough Foundation
Do you know if Retinal vein thrombosis can be a result of covid Vax and multiple boosters? My brother in law is a cardiologists and astonishingly still believes in getting more boosters. He came down with this condition and I think it has to do with all the toxic spike protein which can cause thrombosis. Also doesn’t the LPN pass through the retinal barrier? Can you please explain a possible mechanism for this? Thank you
My wife and her BFF figured out the vaxes were no good in the early spring of 2021. They said we are not taking that Sh_t! So early on most of the peoples of two Asian countries were also smarter than the sheep of western culture. My wife and her BFF are in good company.