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PLACER接种疫苗后死亡，成国际头条新闻！北加警方没出调查结果前，先称与疫苗无关，能否让人信服？
（SACBEE）Northern California sheriff’s office defends posting death of COVID vaccine recipient
北加州治安官办公室为公布新冠病毒疫苗接种者死亡进行辩护
California state health leaders on Monday said they have joined a review of the unusual death last week of a person in Placer County shortly after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine, describing the case as “complex,” but saying they have not determined if there is link between the vaccine and the death.
加州卫生领导人周一表示,他们加入了一个审查的不寻常死亡病例，Placer县接收注射COVID-19疫苗后不久死亡，描述的“复杂”,但说他们还没有决定是否有疫苗和死亡之间的联系。
“We are working closely with the coroner to determine the details around the death,” state health official Dr. Mark Ghaly said during a Monday press briefing on COVID-19 issues. He called the case complex and “worth further investigation,” but declined to offer further details.
“我们正与验尸官密切合作，确定有关死亡的细节，”该州卫生官员马克·加利(Mark Ghaly)博士在周一有关COVID-19问题的新闻发布会上表示。他称此案复杂，“值得进一步调查”，但拒绝提供更多细节。
Ghaly sought to assure residents that the vaccines currently in use have been vetted and are generally safe.
加利试图向居民保证，目前正在使用的疫苗是经过审查的，总体上是安全的。
“These are safe vaccines. We are watching them successfully administered across the globe,” Ghaly said.
“这些都是安全的疫苗。我们正看着它们在全球成功注射。”
There have been cases, however, of some people with acute allergies suffering anaphylactic, or severe, reactions requiring treatment. There are no instances yet in the United States of a person dying from the vaccine.
然而，也有一些急性过敏患者出现了需要治疗的过敏或严重反应。目前在美国还没有人死于这种疫苗。
The announcement by Placer officials over the weekend prompted questions about why health officials and the Sheriff’s Office publicly announced that a resident received the coronavirus vaccine and died the same day, even as no connection between the vaccination and the death had been established.
Placer官员上周末的声明引发了人们的质疑，为什么卫生官员和警长办公室公开宣布一名居民接种了冠状病毒疫苗，并在同一天死亡，而疫苗接种与死亡之间没有联系。
The death occurred last Thursday; it was announced Saturday, with Placer’s public health office and the coroner’s division of the Sheriff’s Office saying in a joint statement that “multiple local, state, and federal agencies” were “actively investigating” the death.
死亡发生在上周四;这一消息是在周六宣布的，普莱塞的公共卫生办公室和警长办公室的验尸官部门在一份联合声明中表示，“多个地方、州和联邦机构”正在“积极调查”这起死亡事件。
The statement notes that “reports surrounding the cause of death are premature” pending that investigation, meaning there has been no indication that the death was connected to the recently administered vaccine dose. Leading health officials warn that people — especially older people, the bulk of vaccine recipients in the current phase of California’s roll out — die all the time of various causes, and that deaths occurring the same day as a vaccine dose are not indicative of a link.
声明指出，“关于死亡原因的报道还为时过早”，有待调查，这意味着没有迹象表明死亡与最近注射的疫苗剂量有关。主要的卫生官员警告说，人们——尤其是老年人，在加州目前推广的疫苗接种阶段，大部分接种疫苗的人——总是会死于各种原因，而且发生在接种疫苗当天的死亡并不意味着两者之间有联系。
That reality has prompted swarms of social media users to take to comment sections to criticize the Placer County Sheriff’s Office for posting the statement. They express worry that, regardless of the disclaimer about a cause of death, the post will feed skepticism and misconceptions about COVID-19 vaccines, which clinical trial data from Pfizer and Moderna have shown to be safe and effective.
这一事实促使大批社交媒体用户在评论区批评Placer县警长办公室发布这一声明。他们表示担心，尽管有关于死亡原因的免责声明，但该帖子将助长人们对COVID-19疫苗的怀疑和误解，辉瑞和Moderna的临床试验数据显示，COVID-19疫苗是安全有效的。
The Sheriff’s Office, and many others in a divided Facebook comments section, defended the announcement as an effort to maintain transparency about what a sheriff’s spokesperson called a “unique situation.” The person who died had tested positive for COVID-19 in late December and died “several hours” after receiving a vaccine dose, the Placer statement said.
在Facebook上一个意见不一的评论区，警长办公室和其他许多人为这一声明进行了辩护，称其是为了在警长发言人所说的“特殊情况”上保持透明度。Placer的声明称，死者在去年12月下旬COVID-19检测呈阳性，在接种疫苗“数小时”后死亡。
Placer sheriff’s spokeswoman Angela Musallam said Monday morning the department will release another statement once an autopsy is completed, but declined to say when that is expected.
普莱瑟县治安官的女发言人安吉拉·穆萨拉姆(Angela Musallam)表示，周一上午，一旦尸检完成，警局将发布另一份声明，但拒绝透露预计何时发布。
She defended her department’s release of the information prior to knowing whether the death was connected to the vaccine, saying it was done in an effort to be open with the public, especially during an era when the trust between the public and government officials has eroded.
她为她的部门在知道死亡是否与疫苗有关之前就发布信息进行了辩护，称这样做是为了向公众公开，尤其是在公众和政府官员之间的信任已经被削弱的时代。
“This is a unique situation for us in Placer County. We value transparency. It’s best to be transparent,” Musallam said.
“这对我们普莱瑟县来说是一个特殊的情况。我们重视透明度。最好保持透明。
Musallam declined to give the person’s age.
穆萨拉姆拒绝透露此人的年龄。
In a separate follow-up statement, Placer County’s Public Health department wrote: “Our thoughts are with the family of the deceased. We take these instances seriously which is why we are working with our government partners to investigate the cause.
在另一份后续声明中，普莱瑟县公共卫生部门写道:“我们与死者的家人同在。我们认真对待这些事件，这就是为什么我们正在与我们的政府伙伴合作调查原因。
“We are working collaboratively and will continue to use data and science to determine how to proceed.”
“我们正在进行合作，并将继续利用数据和科学来确定如何推进。”
The initial death announcement was posted as a news release on the Placer County website and as a Facebook post by the Sheriff’s Office on Saturday afternoon.
最初的死亡公告是周六下午在Placer县网站上发布的新闻，并由警长办公室在Facebook上发布。
The latter drew a huge amount of attention, gaining nearly 2,800 comments and more than 3,000 “shares” on Facebook within 48 hours — far more than typical for the agency’s posts.
后者引起了极大的关注，在48小时内在Facebook上获得了近2800条评论和3000多次“分享”，远远超过该机构通常发布的帖子。
One word popped up often in user comments: “Irresponsible.”
有一个词经常出现在用户评论中:“不负责任”。
“If investigation is still pending, wait until you have all the facts,” one of the top-engaged comments reads. “This post creates fear and questions. It’s not OK. Why would you post this vague and terrifying information?”
其中一条评论写道:“如果调查仍在进行中，那就等着了解全部事实吧。”“这篇文章引发了恐惧和疑问。这不是好的。你为什么要发布这种含糊而可怕的信息?”
WHAT DO EXPERTS THINK?
专家们怎么想?
Dr. George Rutherford, one of the nation’s leading authorities on COVID-19 and head of the Division of Infectious Disease and Global Epidemiology at UC San Francisco’s School of Medicine, is among those who caution that many older people die every day of a variety of causes, unrelated to COVID-19 or the vaccine.
博士乔治•卢瑟福的一个权威COVID-19、传染病流行病学和全球分工的加州大学旧金山的医学院在那些警告说,许多老年人死的每一天有多种原因,无关COVID-19或疫苗。
The California Department of Public Health reported that as of Sunday, providers statewide had administered more than 2.3 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine, within the past seven weeks. Many of those recipients are elderly because CDPH has limited priority to front-line health workers, nursing home residents and those ages 75 and up.
加州公共卫生部(California Department of Public Health)报告称，截至周日，全州范围内的疫苗供应商在过去7周内注射了超过230万剂COVID-19疫苗。这些接受者中有许多是老年人，因为CDPH有限地优先考虑一线卫生工作者、疗养院居民和75岁及以上的人。
Rutherford points out that a certain number of deaths of various cause will come after someone gets the vaccine, simply by happenstance.
卢瑟福指出，在接种疫苗后，一定数量的各种原因的死亡将会发生，这仅仅是偶然的。
In this case, Rutherford cautions that people should await the outcome of the autopsy before drawing any conclusions, either way, about the COVID-19 vaccines.
在这种情况下，卢瑟福警告说，在对COVID-19疫苗做出任何结论之前，人们应该等待尸检结果。
He declined to comment on whether Placer County sheriff’s officials were irresponsible for, as users alleged, connecting the death with the vaccine by way of Saturday’s post.
他拒绝评论Placer县治安官是否不负责任，正如用户所说，通过周六的帖子将死亡与疫苗联系起来。
Rutherford said the ongoing concerns some people have about the vaccine may cause people to make incorrect assumptions.
卢瑟福说，一些人对疫苗的持续担忧可能会导致人们做出错误的假设。
“Whenever you vaccinate people, anything that happens afterward is going to be blamed by some on the vaccine,” he said. “We are vaccinating elderly and frail people ... You have to investigate these things. I understand the CDC is investigating this case as well. We will have to see. It could be anaphylactic, or it could be something completely unrelated.”
他说:“每当你给人们接种疫苗，之后发生的任何事情都会被一些人归咎于疫苗。”“我们为老年人和体弱多病的人接种疫苗……你必须调查这些事情。我知道疾控中心也在调查这个案子。我们拭目以待。可能是过敏反应，也可能是完全不相关的症状。”
Some infectious disease experts have harshly criticized agencies quickly reporting deaths of vaccine recipients prior to full investigation, saying this opens the door for anti-vaccine groups to spread misinformation.
一些传染病专家严厉批评机构在全面调查之前就迅速报告疫苗接种者的死亡，称这为反疫苗组织传播错误信息打开了大门。
“You get one chance to make a first impression,” said epidemiologist Dr. Michael Osterholm, a member of President Joe Biden’s transition advisory board, according to a recent story from CNN. “Even if we come back later and say, ‘No, (the deaths) had nothing to do with vaccination, it was coronary artery disease,’ the damage has already been done.”
据美国有线电视新闻网(CNN)最近报道，乔·拜登(Joe Biden)总统过渡顾问委员会成员、流行病学家迈克尔·奥斯特霍尔姆(Michael Osterholm)说:“你只有一次机会，给人留下第一印象。”“即使我们后来回来说，‘不，(死亡)与疫苗接种无关，这是冠状动脉疾病’，损害已经造成了。”
The Placer County death made local, national and international headlines almost immediately. From Fox News to Xinhua News — a Chinese state-controlled media outlet with 88 million followers — Facebook posts citing the Placer County Sheriff’s Office statement as its source garnered thousands of comments, shares and reactions on the website.
Placer县的死亡事件几乎立即成为了当地、全国乃至国际的头条新闻。从福克斯新闻到新华社新闻——一个拥有8800万粉丝的中国国有媒体——Facebook上引用Placer县警长办公室声明的帖子在网站上获得了数千条评论、分享和反应。
The Sheriff’s Office took a combative tone in some of its comments responding to Facebook users beneath its own post. To the woman who wrote that its statement was “vague and terrifying,” sheriff’s officials penned a reply that began: “Too bad.”
警长办公室在自己的帖子下回应脸书用户时，用了一种好斗的语气。那位女士写道，他们的声明“含糊而可怕”，治安官给她写了一封回复，开头是“太糟糕了”。
“We also have protocols and policies to follow, and we are releasing what we can to the public,” that comment continued. “Accuracy trumps instant gratification here.”
“我们也有协议和政策要遵守，我们正在向公众发布我们所能发布的，”该评论继续说道。“在这里，准确性胜过即时满足。”
In another comment to a different user criticizing the post, the Sheriff’s Office wrote: “If you’re unhappy with the set of information we have provided, feel free to unfollow this page,” a remarkable message coming from a government public safety agency. Sheriff’s offices, including Placer, routinely use their Facebook pages to give followers timely updates on law enforcement activity, wildfire evacuations and other urgent safety threats.
在给另一位批评该帖子的用户的另一条评论中，县治安办公室写道:“如果你对我们提供的一系列信息不满意，请随意取消关注。”这是来自政府公共安全机构的一条引人注目的消息。包括Placer在内的警长办公室经常使用他们的Facebook页面向关注者提供有关执法活动、野火疏散和其他紧急安全威胁的及时更新。
ARE COVID-19 VACCINES SAFE? CLINICAL TRIAL DATA SAYS YES
COVID-19疫苗安全吗?临床试验数据表明可以
Data on adverse reactions from recipients in the clinical trial showed that while many experienced mild, temporary side effects, serious reactions were extremely infrequent, according to CDC’s summaries for both Pfizer and Moderna’s trials, in which tens of thousands participated.
临床试验中受者不良反应的数据显示，虽然许多人经历了轻微的、暂时的副作用，严重的反应极为罕见，根据CDC对辉瑞和Moderna试验的总结，数万人参与了试验。
Many of the reactions were “local,” meaning limited to the point of injection on the body.
许多反应都是“局部的”，也就是说仅限于身体上的注射点。
“Systemic” reactions like fever, fatigue and headaches were also frequent, but the number of these classified as “Grade 4” — requiring hospitalization or an emergency room visit — was extremely low in each manufacturer’s trial, occurring for fewer than 1 in 1,000 vaccine recipients.
像发烧、疲劳和头痛这样的“全身”反应也很常见，但在每个疫苗制造商的试验中，被划分为“4级”(需要住院或去急诊室)的反应数量极低，发生在1000个接种者中不到1个。
For Pfizer, just two out of 7,851 shots (0.03%) from the non-placebo group were followed by hospitalizations for adverse effects, both of them high fevers. Of more than 29,000 non-placebo shots in Moderna’s trials, just 17 reactions (0.06%) were Grade 4: one for joint pain, one for fatigue and the remaining 15 for fevers. No deaths from these adverse effects were noted in the trials.
对于辉瑞公司来说，在7851例非安慰剂组中，只有2例(0.03%)患者因不良反应而住院治疗，均为高热。在Moderna的试验中，超过29000例非安慰剂注射中，只有17种(0.06%)反应为4级:一种用于关节疼痛，一种用于疲劳，其余15种用于发烧。在试验中没有发现因这些不良反应而死亡的病例。
Both are also highly effective in preventing COVID-19. Phase 3 trials showed Pfizer and Moderna’s vaccines, both two-dose regimens, as each being about 95% efficient in preventing recipients from contracting the virus. The Food and Drug Administration had set the bar for emergency use authorization at 50%.
两者在预防COVID-19方面也非常有效。第三阶段试验显示，辉瑞和Moderna的两种两剂疫苗在预防受者感染病毒方面都有95%的效率。美国食品和药物管理局(Food and Drug Administration)将紧急使用授权的门槛设定在50%。
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