Protesters against Africa's first COVID-19 vaccine trial
burned their face masks Wednesday as experts note a worrying level of resistance and misinformation around testing on the continent.
Anti-vaccine sentiment in Africa is "the worst I've ever seen," the CEO of the GAVI vaccine alliance, Seth Berkley, told an African Union vaccine conference last week.
"In general, people in Africa know the diseases and want to protect each other," he said. "In this case, the rumor mill has been dramatic."
The trial that began last week in Johannesburg is part of one already underway in Britain of the vaccine developed at the University of Oxford. Some 2,000 volunteers in South Africa are expected to take part.
It's important that vaccines be tested in Africa to see how they perform in the local context, professor of vaccinology Shabir Madhi, leader of the new COVID-19 vaccine trial in South Africa, told reporters and others in a webinar Sunday.
Comment: Did you catch all that?
The French researcher cited above was 'racist' for saying "let's do vaccine trials in Africa!"... yet key African academics and bureaucrats are 'progressive' for saying "these vaccine trials absolutely must be done in Africa. Because Covid-19."
Should we be surprised that woke, corporate, anti-racist Covid-19 vaccine-pushers are trialing their franken-vaccines on impoverished Africans?
Hypocrisy just doesn't cover it.
In fairness to Oxford University, they probably realized that going straight to 'the Dark Continent' with their vaccines was a bad look, so they started out
injecting them into poor people in Brazil first. Not so Black there. Y'know, more white than Black-Black...
Comment: Did you catch all that?
The French researcher cited above was 'racist' for saying "let's do vaccine trials in Africa!"... yet key African academics and bureaucrats are 'progressive' for saying "these vaccine trials absolutely must be done in Africa. Because Covid-19."
Should we be surprised that woke, corporate, anti-racist Covid-19 vaccine-pushers are trialing their franken-vaccines on impoverished Africans?
Hypocrisy just doesn't cover it.
In fairness to Oxford University, they probably realized that going straight to 'the Dark Continent' with their vaccines was a bad look, so they started out injecting them into poor people in Brazil first. Not so Black there. Y'know, more white than Black-Black...