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Japan's Moderna vaccine contamination woes widen as 1 mln more shots suspended (New: Third suspension)
Reuters ^ | August 29, 2021 | Rocky Swift

Posted on 08/30/2021 10:57:53 AM PDT by Mount Athos

Moderna Inc's (MRNA.O) COVID-19 vaccine contamination woes in Japan have widened with another million doses being temporarily suspended, after foreign substances were found in more batches and two people died following shots from affected lots.

The suspension of Moderna supplies, affecting more than 2.6 million does in total, comes as Japan battles its worst wave of COVID-19 yet, driven by the contagious Delta variant, with new daily infections exceeding 25,000 this month for the first time amid a slow vaccine rollout.

The latest reports of vaccine contamination came from Gunma prefecture near Tokyo and the southern prefecture of Okinawa, prompting the suspension on Sunday of two more lots in addition to the 1.63 million doses already pulled last week.

A tiny black substance was found in a Moderna vaccine vial in Gunma, an official from the prefecture said, while in Okinawa, black substances were spotted in syringes and a vial, and pink material was found in a different syringe.

The government had said that no safety or efficacy issues had been identified and that the suspension was a precaution. The causes of death are being investigated.

"If the contaminated substances were dangerous enough to cause death for some people, probably many more people would have suffered from some symptoms after the vaccination.

"However, further investigations are definitely needed to evaluate the harm of the particular doses in question."

Japan earlier halted the use of 1.63 million Moderna doses, shipped to 863 vaccination centres nationwide after the domestic distributor, Takeda Pharmaceutical (4502.T), received reports of contaminants in some vials.

Some 500,000 people received shots from those supplies, Taro Kono, the minister in charge of the vaccine push, has said.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


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KEYWORDS: chinavirusvaccine; contamination; japan; moderna; vaccine

1 posted on 08/30/2021 10:57:53 AM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: Mount Athos

Under this circus, they would never suspend it here in the U.S.


2 posted on 08/30/2021 11:01:07 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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To: Mount Athos

The panic must be unbearable /s over a virus that has a near 100% survival rate.


3 posted on 08/30/2021 11:02:29 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Mount Athos

It seems clear that these are not “contaminants”, but rather ingredients of the vaccine. Why not study it to determine the ingredients, rather than send them back?


4 posted on 08/30/2021 11:03:00 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

A potentially ugly truth?


5 posted on 08/30/2021 11:04:10 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Mount Athos

The fewer Japanese they poison, the better.


6 posted on 08/30/2021 11:05:39 AM PDT by dsc (Thus have I had thee, as a dream doth flatter, In sleep a king, but waking no such matter.)
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To: Mount Athos

If Japan is getting contaminated doses, we are too.


7 posted on 08/30/2021 11:05:40 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Mount Athos

LOL. Just wait until they check out Pfizer and J&J!


8 posted on 08/30/2021 11:06:41 AM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: Mount Athos

There are some hospital employees out demonstrating against the jab. Maybe I’ll go join them for a while.


9 posted on 08/30/2021 11:06:57 AM PDT by dsc (Thus have I had thee, as a dream doth flatter, In sleep a king, but waking no such matter.)
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To: Mount Athos

what a travesty. i wouldn’t want to be one of those 500,000 poor trusting japanese.

this is a mass emergency inoculation program, searching for a pandemic, with all it’s attendant gov’t snafus and murphy’s law generated catastrophes, combined with an underlying, malevolent purpose of stealing away our individual right to informed consent, prepared by evil tools of the devil for just such a global opportunity.


10 posted on 08/30/2021 11:07:25 AM PDT by dadfly
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To: Mount Athos

Sorta makes ya wanna rush right and yell “NOPE!”.


11 posted on 08/30/2021 11:07:44 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Mount Athos

Further info on vax contamination: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3990170/posts


12 posted on 08/30/2021 11:30:12 AM PDT by upchuck (The longer I remain unjabbed, the more evidence I see supporting my decision.)
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To: Mount Athos

NO LOSS to the company.

they will all be seconded by the CDC for use
in breast feeding women in the USA under
CDC-Law-Mandates for American Extermination.
As usual the CDC will not mandate for themselves
because of the actual dangers to the cognoscendi.


13 posted on 08/30/2021 11:30:50 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium Pauperum)
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To: Mount Athos
The government had said that no safety or efficacy issues had been identified and that the suspension was a precaution.


14 posted on 08/30/2021 11:33:44 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Why do you say that?
The Moderna vaccine in the US is manufactured at Lonza in Portsmouth, NH.
The fill and finish is done by another company in the US.

These two companies are not making and bottling the drug for Japan.


15 posted on 08/30/2021 11:34:18 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: Mount Athos

But our shots are fine.


16 posted on 08/30/2021 11:57:46 AM PDT by McCarthysGhost (q)
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To: Mount Athos

I wonder if anyone is actually doing any QC checks here? Kinda doubt it.


17 posted on 08/30/2021 12:44:02 PM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: woodbutcher1963

Then who is?


18 posted on 08/30/2021 12:45:48 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: McCarthysGhost

But our shots are fine.

Want to bet no one bothers to check and if they do it’s covered up


19 posted on 08/30/2021 1:27:53 PM PDT by butlerweave
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