In
a Facebook post on Monday (June 28) criticising the motives behind an
open letter by five doctors addressed to the Chairman of the government
appointed experts committee, a senior infectious diseases specialist
with the National Centre for Infectious Diseases, David Lye said that
the letter was penned by three of the same doctors who were behind a
previous letter by 12 doctors decrying the effectiveness and safety of
messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccines.
David Lye is a member of the 14-member expert committee on Covid-19 vaccination advising the Ministry of Health (MOH).
The
new letter that circulated over the weekend and is published on the
Facebook page of Dr Kho Kwang Po was also undersigned by Dr Wong Wui
Min, a cardiologist and heart specialist at WM Wong Cardiac and Medical
Clinic in Gleneagles Hospital.
The other signatories are Dr Chia Ai Mian, Dr Louis Loo Wee Ping and Dr Yang Ing Woei.
They
wrote asking for a “short delay” of a few weeks to Singapore’s
“massive” and “most aggressive mRNA programme” for boys in the world, to
allow more “high quality data” on the possible fatal effects of mRNA
vaccines in youth to emerge from the US Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) or other global bodies.
They also referred to
the most recent data on myocarditis, or heart inflammation, in
adolescents and asked if the authorities here could take “a more
sensible and prudent posture”.
The letter said that more
information about the vaccinations is needed, because a 13-year-old boy
in the United States had died from heart failure after getting the
second dose of a Covid-19 vaccine.
Singapore had greenlit the
rollout of the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccine to those aged 12 to 15 last
month, in light of the Delta variant of the coronavirus that was
spreading at the time among school-going teenagers.
SSO
PS. Below is by Redbean
These experts are putting their necks on the chopping block to issue this letter. Their action says something is very serious and must be stopped. They are risking their reputation to take a stand to save the young...and open themselves to be challenged, ridiculed or threatened. These are very brave and highly responsible men and women that came out during a crisis, to wave a red flag about a very dangerous situation now and in the future.
Do not ignore them and their warnings.