Police Investigating S’pore Doc Who Signed Open Letter Against mRNA Vaccine for Anti-Islam FB Posts

Since the coronavirus appeared last year and made meeting your friends illegal, scientists have been saying that our best defence against the disease would be a vaccine.

Now we have several COVD-19 vaccines, and more and more people are getting stabbed in the arm for their health.

So, when a group of doctors here published an open letter urging the authorities to stop vaccinating Singapore’s youth, many residents were puzzled, and parents understandably concerned.

Now it turns out that the doctor who signed the open letter is being investigated by the police.

Police Investigating S’pore Doc Who Signed Open Letter Against mRNA Vaccine for Anti-Islam FB Posts

Dr Kho Kwang Po, the man who signed and posted the open letter on Facebook, is now being probed by the authorities.

A police report has been made against Dr Kho for allegedly publishing Facebook posts that contained anti-Islam statements.

It is believed that the report was filed on Tuesday (29 June), just three days after Dr Kho shared the open letter on Facebook.

According to the report, Dr Kho had made several public posts between 2014 and April this year that allegedly claimed Islam was a violent religion.

He had also commented on a violent shooting incident in Pakistan, allegedly saying: “Everybody should study the teachings of Islam honestly and come to their own conclusion as to its true nature.’’

Then, on 13 April this year, he allegedly published a post about the Muslim headscarves issue, asking if “Muslim nurses in Singapore (are) going to look like those in Saudi Arabia”.

TODAY reported that Dr Kho had been issued a warning over a police report made against him in 2019, but no details have been made publicly available.

Letter Contained Unverified Claims

If you’re going to make claims that vaccinations during a devastating pandemic should stop because they might be hazardous, you should probably prepare some evidence to back your claims up.

In the letter addressed to Singapore’s expert committee on COVID-19 vaccines, doctors here referred to the death of a 13-year-old boy in the US.

The letter claimed that the boy had died from heart failure after receiving the second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, though no direct correlation has been established.

In response, the committee pointed out that the US health authorities have continued to support the vaccination of adolescents because the benefits outweigh the risks.

While there have been a few cases of heart inflammation in men after the second COVID-19 dose, the risk is “very small“, according to the committee.

In May this year, Dr Kho also signed an open letter from 12 doctors addressed to parents, questioning the long-term safety of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for children.

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