South Africa’s brutal lockdown 2: Vaccine guru’s conflicts of interest
Yesterday’s first part of this account of South Africa’s disastrous lockdown identified the man most responsible for the decision, a scientist at the centre of the network of funding that his own lucrative charity and academic posts depend on. Today, Karen Harradine details his multiple government appointments that despite clear conflict of interests allowed him to dictate South Africa’s Covid policy.
THE charity at the centre of the spider’s web of ‘health’ interests in South Africa is the Centre for the Aids Programme of Research in South Africa’s (CAPRISA), run by Professor Salim S Abdool Karim. One of its ‘partners’, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), co-ordinates with the Department of Health on the key Covid policy-making unit, the South African Covid-19 Modelling Consortium (SACMC). It was SACMC that, in March 2020, informed the government that if the country didn’t lock down, between 87,900 and 351,000 would die from Covid-19, and the health system would be overwhelmed.
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https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/south-africas-brutal-lockdown-2-vaccine-gurus-conflicts-of-interest/
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