On April 26, a piece of news shocked countless netizens like a loud thunder on the ground - the official confirmed that Yang Xiaoming, who enjoys the reputation of "the father of the new crown vaccine", was arrested!
Who is Yang Xiaoming and who is Yang Xiaoming?
He was the chief engineer and chief scientist of China National Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd., the chief scientist of China National Biotechnology Co., Ltd., the director of the National Key Laboratory of New Vaccine Research and Development of New Infectious Diseases, the director of the National Joint Vaccine Engineering Research Center, and the chief scientist of the "863" vaccine project.
After the outbreak of the new crown virus epidemic in Wuhan in 2020, Yang Xiaoming led the team to develop a domestic inactivated vaccine, and it took only 98 days to develop the new crown vaccine, and it was approved for conditional listing on December 30, 2020, which is the first new crown vaccine to be marketed in China.
For this reason, Yang Xiaoming became famous, known as the "father of Sinopharm vaccine", and was awarded the "National Advanced Individual in the Fight against the New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic". At the end of 2023, he won the "Outstanding Scholar Award" of the 11th Chinese Society of Immunology.
Under normal circumstances, it generally takes more than 10 years for a vaccine to be developed and marketed, with an investment of up to 1 billion yuan, and it will take 5 to 6 years at the earliest. Therefore, the new crown vaccine has been on the market for more than 330 days, which can be called a miracle.
At that time, all mankind was in a panic about the epidemic, and the vaccine developed by Yang Xiaoming was not only a medical achievement, but also provided hope and confidence for people to defeat the virus.
In an interview, Yang Xiaoming generously said that he was one of the first people to "try medicine".
Yang Xiaoming has publicly stated that more than two-thirds of 1.4 billion people can achieve herd immunity.
However, many experts believe that the speed of development of new crown vaccines does not conform to medical common sense.
After Yang Xiaoming was arrested, netizens exposed the problems that arose after they were vaccinated in the comment area.
These so-called sequelae can be described as strange, and I am not an expert to determine whether these symptoms are related to vaccines.
But now that Yang Xiaoming has suddenly fallen from power, and he has seriously violated the law and discipline, people have to think about it, and they have to wonder if the lives and health of the people of the whole country are in the hands of this one person, and in what way did he violate the law and discipline? Will these violations of law and discipline affect the safety of scientific research results?
Zaobao.com posted on Weibo that some scholars believe that Yang Xiaoming's fall may involve drug corruption and vaccine research and development.
Regarding vaccines, from research and development, trials to final marketing, the relevant departments have a set of strict procedures.
Although the rigorous procedure cannot guarantee that the quality will be good, there must be procedural loopholes in the listing of those with poor quality.
The rocket speed of Yang Xiaoming's vaccine has obviously jumped out of the program. While this doesn't mean that there is necessarily a problem with quality, it can at least be sure that quality is not guaranteed.
This logical relationship is not complicated, and normal people can realize it.
When you think about it, you worry, and worry is in vain.
If even such an outstanding scientist is not honored, then what we need to treat and immunize against is only the virus in nature?
Science and technology can promote the progress of human society, but it cannot be completely equated with the degree of social civilization.
If you master advanced technology, but you can't control your power and desire, it will bring disaster.
In fact, the stronger the ability, the more unimaginable the destructive power of doing bad things, so institutional constraints must be established.