Taiwan's high-end vaccine produced by itself recently announced that it can effectively fight BA.5, and the outside world questioned whether it paved the way for the DPP authorities' future procurement. Xue Ruiyuan, head of the health department of the DPP authorities, said yesterday (6th) that there will be no high-end purchases in next-generation vaccines. But after November this year, it is estimated that up to 1.7 million doses of high-end vaccines will be scrapped due to expiration. The Kuomintang "legislator" Lindefu said yesterday that the DPP authorities purchased about 5 million doses of high-end vaccines, which was equivalent to 34% of them being completely destroyed. Based on the purchase price of a single dose of more than 800 yuan ( New Taiwan Dollar , the same below), more than one billion yuan of people's tax payment money was "flowed".
Taiwan legislative body "Financial Committee" yesterday asked the health authorities and other units to submit special reports on the purchase, label, price, dose, administration and related budget implementation situations and benefits of new crown vaccine and cold chain.
According to the report of the "Audit Department", by the end of September this year, Taiwan has purchased more than 68.41 million doses of vaccines, received more than 24.26 million doses of vaccines, totaling more than 92.67 million doses, more than 65.95 million doses have arrived, and more than 57.87 million doses have been used.
Xue Ruiyuan confirmed that at the end of September, 4 million doses of vaccines were destroyed due to expired, accounting for 6% of the total vaccine. Among the 4 million doses, the high-end doses account for 1.2 million doses, with a conversion ratio of 30%. There are still more than 500,000 doses that last until November. If they are completely destroyed, the maximum amount is 1.7 million doses.
Kuomintang "legislator" Hong Mengkai said that the effectiveness of high-end vaccines has been extended from the earliest 6 months, which is equivalent to extending the period to 12 months, but as much as one-third have been destroyed. It is really outrageous, with a high-end scrap rate of 34%, compared with the overall vaccine scrap rate of 6%, which is nearly 6 times. The scrap rate is mostly contributed by high-end vaccines.
Hong Mengkai also criticized that more than 3,000 subjects of high-end vaccines have not yet entered the experiment of the third dose of additives. The health authorities use Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to make the high-end one of the third dose of additional vaccine lists. It is simply to take human lives and treat the people as white mice.
Lin Defu said that high-end vaccines have not passed the international phase III clinical certification, and the Japanese government does not recognize that if people go to Japan, they still need to do PCR nucleic acid at their own expense. What do the health authorities and the "audience department" think about the quantity and total amount of high-end vaccines?
Xue Ruiyuan argued that vaccine procurement was first in the first place, and it would be better for everyone to have a rest after the injection. The high-end vaccines are not well pumped, and many delivery has been delayed. According to the report submitted by the Audit Department, " Disease Control Department " has imposed a daily penalty for overdue liquidated damages, but has not yet deducted the penalty for overdue liquidated damages for more than 30 days and failure to perform the contract.
"Command Center" spokesperson Zhuang Renxiang said that in March this year, a total of 2% penalty was fined for the failure to perform the contract. As for the relevant amount, he said he could not say it, so as not to expose the unit price of the vaccine.
Recently, the number of confirmed cases of BA.5 mutant strain in Taiwan has increased, and the "Command Center" encourages the public to receive next-generation vaccines. Kuomintang legislator Lai Shibao questioned that the announcement of high-end vaccines recently can effectively fight BA.5, and will it pave the way for the future procurement of the DPP authorities? Xue Ruiyuan said, "Let's talk about it when the experiment is done", emphasizing that there are no high-end vaccines in the procurement of next-generation vaccines. (Lin Jingxian/editor)
