When a tiny 0.5ml vial of covid vaccine broke in a lab, and sickened 15 people.

https://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/520500

This was reported in the Journal of Ophthalmology in 2021.  Apparently the lab personnel were working with the vaccine CoronaVac, produced by SinoVac, the Chinese company making the Chinese covid vaccine.  

There were 20 lab personnel working in closed quarters lab spaces when one of the vials of CoronVac fell and hit the floor.  The vial is glass, so it broke into a thousand pieces.  The contents were 0.5mL of the CoronaVac vaccination. The nurse in the lab wiped up the contents with a paper towel, threw it in the trash can, and went about her day.  Everyone in the lab was wearing a facemask at the time. 

But ohhhhhhh something started to happen.  Not good things started to happen.  Among those 20 lab employees, 15 of them started to develop symptoms of eye irritation, eye redness and swelling, watery and tearing eyes, and skin rash.  All 15 were diagnosed with conjunctivitis and ocular erosions of the cornea. The 5 people who had no symptoms only worked in the room for another 30 minutes after the spill and they left the area.  Anyone who stayed longer than 30 minutes OR who entered that room hours later and stayed for a period of time had the skin and eye issues. 

Now bear in mind, this was a 0.5ml vial that broke.  This reaction was due to the contamination of the AIR in the LAB SPACE from that tiny amount of fluid in that vial.  It spread in the air to all of the 6 lab spaces being used, despite the vial breaking in the area of lab room 3-4.  Symptoms were reported even in the lab spaces not adjacent to where this tiny vial broke.  The people who got sick were either in the room when the vial broke, OR they entered the room 3-4 hours later.  Which means that the contaminants of that broken vial remained IN THE AIR for HOURS after it broke, and caused eye and skin problems for people who were not even in the building when the vial broke.  

They “hypothesize” that the aluminum hydroxide adjuvant in the vaccine is what caused the adverse reaction.  The also note that some ocular side effects have been reported in people who have been vaccinated with this vaccine, not just during a 0.5ml broken vial spill. 

Their advice?  “Special caution should be taken to avoid breaking and spillage of the CoronaVac vials”.  

WHAT?!  If that kind of reaction happens from a 0.5ml spill, what in the hell is that vaccine doing to the internal organs of your body?  

Their formal paper conclusion was this: We report on a spill of CoronaVac, which was followed by a cluster of adverse events to proximal health care personnel. We recommend caution during vaccine handling and fastidious clean-up of any spills.  Well no shit Sherlock.  How about we throw all the vaccines away and never risk one breaking again, and avoid ever putting one into a human being again?  That gets my vote.