At last, someone from the Senate had the gall of questioning Atty. Persida Acosta's participation in the Dengvaxia issue.
Senator Tito Sotto cautioned Acosta from releasing "unverified" and "inconclusive" findings about Dengvaxia. A series of TV Patrol reports showing Acosta crying and even declaring publicly of a severe dengue epidemic is causing undue panic among Filipinos, and do not help in the cases to be filed by alleged victims of the vaccine.
Sotto is right. Acosta's role is to make sure that there is sufficient pieces of evidence to show a definitive link between those kid's deaths and the vaccine. 14 cases out of 800,000 is definitive?
I repeat---fourteen out of 800,000 kids vaccinated, proof of an epidemic of severe dengue?
Frankly, Acosta is correct---severe dengue is prevalent in the Philippines because our country is dengue infested, meaning dengue is an endemic disease in this tropical country.
What is so crafty about Acosta's pronouncement is that she is telling us that this epidemic is caused by Dengvaxia which is untrue!!
According to the World Health Organisation or WHO, there is still no confirmed dengvaxia-related deaths. Acosta claims there is. Whom do you believe--a lawyer who wants to be senator Acosta or WHO?
Frankly, I don't mind these anti-Dengvaxia people from hitting this vaccine because I don't have any love lost for this vaccine.
As a scholar, present empirical evidence first before I believe the yarn being spread by Acosta and by Dr. Tony Leachon and other so-called health experts.
For me, it is irresponsible for these people to go around town, like robbed messengers of death, and claim that these kids died due to severe dengue caused by dengvaxia. Maybe they really died of severe dengue but caused by a vaccine? Balooney!
I laud Senator Tito Sotto for his statement. May your tribe increase.
At least nagiisip si Tito Sen, hindi yung sakay na lang ng sakay sa isyu talud ng mga re-electionists na sina Senator JV Ejercito and Nancy Binay.
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