In May 2021, Tianjin man Liu Zhao was diagnosed with leukemia after receiving the second dose of the Sinovac vaccine. He persisted in fighting for his rights and was consequently placed under 24-hour surveillance by the authorities, ultimately succumbing in a “stability maintenance ward”.
Liu Zhao, a villager from Jixian County in Tianjin, born in 1987 and originally in good health, saw misfortune descend upon his modest family after receiving two doses of the Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine.
An informant named Chen Gang told Epoch Times that Liu Zhao initially did not take his fever seriously. It was only upon the advice of friends that he went to Tianjin Jizhou District Hospital for a check-up, where it was discovered that his platelet count was very low. He was immediately admitted to the emergency room and later transferred to the Tianjin First Central Hospital, where he was diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome with a marrow fibrosis rating of 3+.
Doctors informed his family that given Liu Zhao’s condition, it might take 10 or 20 years for it to progress to leukemia. However, Liu Zhao’s condition deteriorated rapidly, and by the end of July 2022, he was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia by the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Institute of Hematology.
Chen Gang mentioned that doctors from several hospitals at that time implied to the family that Liu Zhao’s condition could be related to the vaccine. They would ask: “Did he receive the vaccine? How many shots did he take? When did he take them?” However, due to the prohibition on issuing vaccine death certificates by the authorities, doctors refrained from including this information in medical records.
Meanwhile, Jizhou District issued a “Classification Diagnosis Conclusion of Abnormal Reaction to Preventive Vaccination” for Liu Zhao without signatures from experts. Some parts of it claimed no relation to the vaccine, citing it as a coincidence. However, doctors told the family that the genetic lineage mutation Liu Zhao exhibited was not congenital but acquired post-vaccination.
Chen Gang questioned the validity of using the genetic mutation as proof that the vaccine was not involved, highlighting the lack of pre-vaccination genetic data. He argued that without this data, the possibility of the vaccine causing the mutation could not be ruled out.
At this point, Liu Zhao’s medical expenses had already amounted to several hundred thousand yuan, and the family had borrowed extensively to raise funds for his treatment. Due to treatments like radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and bone marrow transplants, his body had become significantly weakened. Helpless, he began advocating for his rights with his deteriorating health, only to be deceived by stability maintenance officials who lured him to the hospital under the guise of coordinating expert treatment but instead confined him to the stability maintenance ward.
“In the later stages, there were people stationed at the ward’s entrance 24 hours a day, without any actual consultation records, all in order to let him die,” said Chen Gang.
Liu Zhao’s elderly mother had protested in front of various levels of government, but her pleas fell on deaf ears. Overwhelmed with grief, she suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and was nearly killed. His sister had exhausted all channels of petitioning to no avail. In anger, Chen Gang questioned, “Why drag a critically ill patient to death? Why issue false assessments, shifting blame and deception?”
Liu Zhao’s ordeal is just a glimpse of the plight faced by numerous vaccine victims. Liu Zhao’s mother vowed to continue fighting for justice not just for herself but also for the many victims harmed by vaccines.