According to Taiwanese media reports Former Taipei Mayor Hao Longbin held a press conference with Taiwan's "Director of Health" Yang Zhiliang yesterday, announcing that he would jointly submit a letter to the Taipei Higher Administrative Court, requesting the court to stop the "Ministry of Health and Welfare"'s emergency use authorization (EUA) for self-produced high-end vaccines to protect people's health. Hao Longbin said that human life is a matter of stake, "politics cannot override scientific majors." Tsai Ing-wen and Lai Ching-te took the lead in expressing their willingness to get self-produced vaccines, which is a very wrong demonstration.
Yang Zhiliang said that before the United States and the European Union gave emergency authorization, they required pharmaceutical companies to submit at least the third phase of the interim report, and there were more than 10,000 test subjects before they dared to give emergency authorization for the vaccine. Compared with Europe and the United States, Taiwan's self-produced high-end vaccine has not yet completed the second phase of the trial. The Ministry of Health and Welfare gave emergency authorization, which is simply a joke about the health of the people.
Hao Longbin also pointed out that the DPP authorities used "immune bridging" as an excuse to allow high-end to not conduct phase 3 trials, which is fundamentally contrary to international norms. Although self-produced vaccines are strategic materials, "politics cannot override professionalism" and scientific things cannot be solved by political means. He criticized that "immune bridging" is not a technology recognized by the US FDA or the EU pharmaceutical authorities. There are no similar cases in the world, and "immune bridging" cannot replace the third phase 3 trials. Ye Qingyuan, appointed lawyer at
, said that applying to the administrative court to stop execution is a difficult challenge. In the past, the administrative court has always made relatively relaxed determinations of interests in environmental protection cases, allowing people to litigate against environmental impact assessment and other punishments. Compared with environmental protection lawsuits, the emergency authorization of high-end vaccines harms every citizen more immediately and directly. According to the legal principle of "taking light to clarify the heavy", it should be more in line with the requirements of interests.