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grompf3 · 7 months ago

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Ne vous laissez pas impressionner parce qu'on vous dit qu'il y a "une étude" - exemple avec Louis Fouché... et quelques autres !

Je reviens sur cette vidéo de la RTS consacrée à Louis Fouché.

Regardez cet extrait. On parle d'une étude.

Vous voyez le truc ?

Un préprint. Une pré-publication.

J'ai découvert plein de trucs en m'intéressant à la désinformation sur le Covid et les vaccins. Notamment plein de trucs utilisés pour embrouiller le débat public avec l'argument du "il y a une étude qui dit ceci".

Je vais vous causer de quelques uns de ces trucs.

1. Le preprint

Le truc utilisé ici.

Un préprint, en théorie, ça devait servir à favoriser le débat scientifique et à partager certaines informations rapidement. Un projet d'article est rendu public.

Comme ça les scientifiques peuvent y jeter un œil, commenter, etc.

En attendant la publication en bonne et due forme dans une revue sérieuse, après vérification.

Sauf que le système à été largement détourné. Et le préprint est devenu un moyen de s'adresser aux médias et au grand public en racontant n'importe quoi sous une apparence sérieuse.

Et que ce soit les internautes lambda comme les journalistes professionnels, on voit ainsi des gens commenter telle étude qui dit ceci ou cela... Alors qu'il peut s'agir d'un texte pourri fait n'importe comment et qu'aucune revue sérieuse ne publiera jamais.

Ce n'est de toutes manières pas le but d'être vraiment publié. Le but c'est juste d'impressionner le public en disant "il y a une étude".

Vous avez un autre magnifique exemple ici. L'ultime grand coup d'éclat de Didier Raoult avant de quitter la direction de l'IHU. Une étude pourrie (et plus que douteuse sur le plan éthique comme légal) "démontrant" l'efficacité de l'hydroxychloroquine.

Un préprint.

Qui a d'ailleurs été retiré du site.

Qu'importe.

Ça a fait une grosse annonce, il y a eu un buzz sur les RS et les sites complotistes se sont rués dessus. Et on a pu dire qu'une étude prouvait l'efficacité de l'HCQ contre le Covid.

2. La lettre à l'éditeur

Vous écrivez une lettre à un éditeur d'une revue scientifique. La lettre est publiée. Et ensuite la lettre est partagée et diffusée en étant présentée comme un "article scientifique".

Ça vous paraît grossier comme truc ?

Et bien je vous rappelle que c'est avec un truc du genre que Raoult avait lancé le buzz de la chloroquine au début de la pandémie.

Des toubibs chinois avaient écrit une lettre à un éditeur annonçant que la chloroquine (la chloroquine, pas l'HCQ...) avaient selon eux un effet bénéfique face au Covid.

Et Raoult, dans sa vidéo "fin de partie" avait annoncé que des chercheurs chinois avaient mené une étude sur la chloroquine et que ça venait de sortir. En fait, tout ce qu'il y avait, c'était une lettre à un éditeur et la promesse de bientôt publier une étude en bonne et due forme.

J’avais été interviewé par la télévision chinoise. On m’avait demandé les conseils que je donnais aux Chinois et ce que j’attendais des Chinois, que je considère comme les meilleures équipes de virologie au monde. Je leur ai dit, "j’espère que très très vite les Chinois nous donneront les résultats d’une première étude sur l’efficacité de la chloroquine sur les coronavirus." Et ça vient de sortir. C’est efficace sur les coronavirus avec 500 mg de chloroquine par jour pendant 10 jours. Il y a une amélioration spectaculaire et c’est recommandé pour tous les cas cliniquement positifs d’infection au coronavirus chinois. Donc c’est une excellente nouvelle. C’est probablement l’infection respiratoire la plus facile à traiter de toutes, la moins chère. Et donc ce n’est pas la peine de s’exciter, il faut travailler. Ce n’est pas la peine de s’exciter et de promettre les vaccins dans 10 ans.

Je vous avait parlé de ça dans un billet de blog d'ailleurs.

Tout le scandale de la chloroquine a démarré lorsqu'un toubib à Marseille a publié une vidéo évoquant l'existence d'une étude en se basant sur une simple lettre à l'éditeur écrite par 2-3 toubibs.

Les chercheurs chinois en question avaient fini par publier un préprint, qui n'aboutira jamais à une authentique publication.

3. Les revues contrôlées par les copains

Continuons avec le buzz de la chloroquine.

Après sa fameuse vidéo "fin de partie", Raoult a publié une étude, souvent désignées comme l'étude "Gautret & Al." (du nom du 1er auteur), qui démontrait l'efficacité de l'hydroxychloroquine associée à un antibiotique, azithromycine... Oui, la chloroquine avait entre-temps été remplacée par son dérivé, l'HCQ.

Étude révisée en même pas 1 journée (révision qui aurait dû prendre des semaines).

Étude surtout publiée chez des gens travaillant avec Didier Raoult.

Des tas de gens se sont penchés sur cette étude qui fait l'unanimité : c'est de la merde, de la désinformation criminelle.

Des patients qui disparaissent de l'étude (Raoult a décidé que les patients traités à l'HCQ et décédés ne devaient pas être comptés), des groupes pas comparables, etc. Et des bizarreries qu'on n'arrive pas à expliquer à moins de considérer le recours à de la fraude.

Et donc ça a été validé en 24 heures.

Par une revue dirigée par des copains.

4. Les revues prédatrices

Vous montez une revue scientifique qui a l'air tout-à-fait sérieuse, sauf que vous publiez n'importe quoi du moment que les auteurs paient et que ça à l'air plus ou moins sérieux.

Plus ou moins.

Parfois plutôt moins que plus d'ailleurs.

Un groupe de jeunes scientifiques avaient mis le phénomène en évidence grâce à un canular grotesque qui avait abouti pourtant à une publication dans une de ces revues.

Ils ont ainsi "démontré" l'efficacité de l'hydroxychloroquine contre les accidents de trottinette. Oui, c'est complètement crétin. Et si vous lisez l'article en question, vous verrez que c'est juste hallucinant.

Ce canular avait été fait en réaction à une "étude" publiée dans la revue prédatrice en question, l'Asian Journal of Medicine and Health, sensée "prouver" l'efficacité de l'HCQ. Cette "étude", était l'œuvre d'une bande de comploplos organisés au sein d'un collectif regroupant notamment Violaine Guérin et Martine Wonner, "Laissons les prescrire".

Après la publication de l'article bidon sur les trottinettes et l'HCQ, forcément que pas mal de monde a pigé ce que valait l'argument du "on a publié une étude".

Vous trouverez pas mal de littérature sur les revues prédatrices, qui sont un souci pour le monde de la recherche.

5. Les actes des colloques

Vous donnez une conférence dans un colloque scientifique. Les conférences du colloque en question donnent lieu à des articles en résumant le contenu.

L'article résumant votre conférence est alors diffusé et présenté comme une "étude" (ou comme "un article scientifique"), même s'il y a eu 0 contrôle.

Je ne sais pas si le truc est très utilisé. À dire vrai, je n'ai qu'un seul exemple en mémoire.

Mais c'est un très joli exemple et je tiens à vous le raconter.

Une histoire de vaccins, d'effets secondaires dévastateurs et de compléments alimentaires.

En novembre 2021, un article scientifique mettant en évidence un risque élevé de troubles cardiaques graves chez les personnes vaccinées faisait un carton sur les RS auprès de nos amis les comploplos.

Un article sérieux. En apparence.

Sauf qu'en fait, c'était juste un toubib qui s'était retiré de la médecine pour monter un business de compléments alimentaires et qui avait participé à un colloque. Il y avait fait des prédictions totalement apocalyptiques sur les troubles cardiaques que provoqueraient dans les années à venir les vaccins anti-covid... Tout en proposant subtilement un complément alimentaire sensé prévenir ces troubles cardiaques. Complément alimentaire qui figurait dans l'assortiment du petit business de notre brave toubib.

Ce cardiologue résume la chose :

Et si vous voulez des explications plus détaillées :

Bref, un truc pourri de chez pourri et même un gars sans connaissances scientifiques particulières, comme moi, pige facilement les arnaques derrière cette histoire.

6. En rester au titre

Vous prenez un article scientifique tout-à-fait sérieux dont le contenu ne va pas du tout dans votre sens. Et vous y allez au culot, pariant sur le fait que les gens ne vont pas aller vérifier le contenu.

Et vous citez l'article comme source pour étayer votre bullshit.

Très utilisé.

J'avais un joli exemple en Belgique. C'était en septembre 2021. Un collectif avait publié une lettre ouverte sous le nom de "Factor V". En résumé on vous expliquait que le Covid c'était pas si grave que ça, que les vaccins c'était pas si sûr que ça, ni si efficace que ça, ce genre de trucs.

Bernard Rentier, virologue à la retraite, ex-recteur d'université, était dans le coup. Et qqn a eu l'idée de lui demander de sourcer les affirmations contenues dans la lettre ouverte.

Il s'en était suivi une liste de sources... Dont certaines contredisaient complètement le propos de la lettre, pour autant que l'on se donne la peine de les lire.

Exemple avec ce rapport des autorités du Royaume Uni sur les effets secondaires du vaccin.

Oulala, on parle des "adverses reactions" ! Ça prouve bien qu'il y a un problème.

Sauf que si vous lisez la conclusion, ça va, y'a pas de quoi paniquer :

Vaccines are the best way to protect people from COVID-19 and have already saved tens of thousands of lives. Everyone should continue to get their vaccination when invited to do so unless specifically advised otherwise. As with all vaccines and medicines, the safety of COVID-19 vaccines is being continuously monitored. The benefits of the vaccines in preventing COVID-19 and serious complications associated with COVID-19 far outweigh any currently known side effects in the majority of patients.

Et ça, c'est donc une source sensée étayer l'affirmation suivante, contenue dans la fameuse lettre :

d. les vaccins actuels entraînent des effets indésirables rares mais graves, dont l'ampleur est sous-estimée et insuffisamment signalée. La déclaration des effets indésirables par les médecins généralistes et hospitaliers et par les vaccinés serait actuellement largement insuffisante;

Et je vous parle pas d'une bande de petits twittos anonymes amateurs d'Illuminati et de Lune creuse. Non, c'était du beau linge qui avait rédigé et signé ce truc.

Et il y avait 2-3 autres exemples du même genre dans les sources fournies par monsieur le recteur honoraire de l'Université de Liège. J'avais raconté ça ici :

Autres trucs

Il y a sûrement d'autres trucs qui m'échappent, auxquels je ne pense pas. Et je ne veux pas tout développer.

Mais on peut citer en vrac encore :

Faire allusion à des études... Sans les citer. Et balancer un "faites vous-même vos rechercher" à celles et ceux qui demandent à voir.

Les citations déformées ou tronquées tirées d'articles sérieux.

Les revues d'apparence sérieuse mais sans peer review, sans vérification (comme dans cette exemple)

La fraude pure et simple : des données bidonnées pour tromper l'éditeur et les réviseurs (et le lecteur)

Et je vous laisse réfléchir si vous avez encore d'autres trucs en tête pour raconter n'importe quoi en faisant croire que c'est le résultat d'une recherche scientifique digne de ce nom.

Et puis, au risque d'insister, je vous invite encore une fois à jeter un œil à toute la vidéo sur Louis Fouché et à la partager. C'est très intéressant.

#désinformation #complotisme #santé #réseaux sociaux #factchecking #fact checking #scepticism

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guyboulianne · 7 months ago

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Guy Boulianne participe à une action collective contre Facebook pour avoir été censuré et banni après avoir diffusé une pétition exigeant du Gouvernement du Québec que la chloroquine ou l’hydroxychloroquine soit administrée aux personnes atteintes du COVID https://bityl.co/PtGQ

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202247497caic223 · 2 years ago

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From Iron man to Icarus - how Musk's popularity plunged deeper than the Mariana trench

It is a sunny day in the 1980’s Pretoria, South Africa. In the local school, a young, white boy lies on the floor, covering his head with his hands as the older boys continue beating him. After some time, someone finally calls an ambulance, and he is rushed to the hospital where he has to stay until he has recovered from being nearly beaten to death. Sadly, the incident did not surprise him, he was used to the constant bullying and escaped more and more into his Sci-fi novels and comic books. One day, he says to himself, I will be like them. An Inventor, revolutionizing the world, a hero who is celebrated for his fight against injustice. He starts holding his ground, calling out his white classmates when they smear racist slurs on the cafeteria walls, even though it worsens the bullying. With twelve, he sells his first game to a magazine for $500. At 17 he leaves Africa and enrols in Queen’s University in Ontario, studies there for two years, before he gets a scholarship for the UPenn and graduates in Physics and Economics. In 2002, he sells his Company PayPal to eBay for $1.5 Billion and uses the money to found SpaceX and fund a start-up called Tesla. He has finally made it! He is an inventor, an entrepreneur and people started seeing him as a hero who will make space travel available for anybody! People call him the “real-life Tony Stark” only with an assuredly moral domain instead of selling weapons like the Marvel Hero did. His brand: "Saviour of the human race". By now, you probably guessed that the little, bullied boy is Elon Reeve Musk.

He was incredibly popular, especially with environmental protecting liberals. His revolutionizing electronic car, the Tesla, has become the symbol of “liberal do-goodery” and many eco-conscious people buy it just for this reason. He initially donates exclusively to the Democratic Party, supporting political figures like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, which makes perfect sense as he is one of the largest purveyors of renewable energy tech world-wide. His economic values, his striving towards making the world a better place, align naturally with the values of liberals and the Democratic party.

The younger generations celebrate him after he starred as a guest in PewDiePie’s Meme-review on YouTube in 2019. He starts tweeting memes daily, editing himself on the body of The Rock and replying to his young followers in the comment section. He turns into a Meme lord, despite being forty-eight years old. In 2021, The Times declares him the person of the year, the New York Post characterises him as “gloriously capitalistic [and] irreverent” and as “the hero we need today”. Forty years after nearly being beaten to death, he became one of the characters he read about as a child. He is the richest man in the world and an inspiration for many aspiring engineers and entrepreneurs. And I admit, I shared their opinions of him, to me he was simple ‘the Tesla guy’ who occasionally popped-up as a new, funny meme on my Instagram feed. But now, only a year after his peak, he is on Icarus-like decent worse than any other he had before.

See, Musk has had controversies before, only that the public forgot and forgave them shortly after they happened. The first backlash comes, as he spreads a massive amount of misinformation on the Coronavirus during the course of 2020. From stating that the panic around the deadly virus is over the top, to alleging politicians of publishing enlarged numbers of death, and even suggesting that people should consider the anti-malaria drug chloroquine to battle COVID. This last suggestion was also made by Donald Trump and Laura Ingraham and resulted in the death of at least one person.

It was during this period, that he began to lean more to the right-winged political side for example by challenging his followers to “Take the red pill”. The red pill is a reference to the matrix movie and taking it frees the hero, Neo, “from a dream-world imposed on humanity and let him see reality”. A reference which is now a metaphor often used by right-winged conspiracy theorists. Many republicans, including Ivanka Trump, reply with “Taken” and congratulate him on finally seeing the truth.

But he did not stop there and went so far as to call the lockdown “fascist”. He believed the safety measures taken by the government desperately trying to slow down the exploding death rates and attempting to relieve the collapsing health-system are “not Democratic. This is not Freedom. Give people back their goddamn freedom.”. The fuss around him died down eventually after he announced in 2021 that he believes in the COVID vaccine and in vaccines in general. A tweet which was received with mixed emotions. Especially Trump-supporters and republicans reacted negatively, disagreeing with his opinion on it being safe or asking if he was being blackmailed or even kidnapped. But alas, all was forgotten, until he created his latest and biggest controversy.

In February of 2022, he buys 9.2% of the Twitter shares, a purchase which makes him the biggest shareholder of the company. Soon after the news came out, he started posting polls on Twitter and rambles about ideas on how to improve the platform. While some people are concerned about his purchase and the consequential influence over the social media company, many celebrate him, calling him the next CEO of Twitter and start requesting changes from him. The people celebrating him are once again mostly republican, like the republican congressional candidate Lavern Spicer which even goes so far as to thank Musk under his first tweet after buying the shares for “helping to save western civilization”. The board of Twitter itself is not as ecstatic as his followers and feels threatened by the multi-billionaire. As a result, they create a deal: Musk gets appointed to the board if he agrees to not buy more than 15% of the Twitter shares. Elon does agree and on the 5th of April, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal announces, that he will officially join the board four days later.

Elon replies very optimistic, stating that he is “Looking forward to working with Parag & Twitter board to make significant improvements to Twitter in coming months!”. The replies to both tweets are mixed and show a clear separation. While some people simply ask him to install an edit button, the republican followers get louder and many ask him to unban Trump from Twitter, fire Parag and praise him for bringing back free speech to the platform. The other side is concerned about his purchase and look migrate to other platforms such as Tumblr.

But his approval was only a façade that crumbles as he declares on the day of his appointment, that he will no longer join the board. Instead, he publicly ponders in a tweet whether Twitter is dying. And maybe his pondering, as well as many republicans replying it is due to ‘censorship’, resulted in the conclusion, that only he can be the hero that saves Twitter because he makes his first offer to purchase it on the 14th of April. He is willing to pay $43 billion, which later turns into $44 billion, to take the company private. The Twitter board, in an attempt to prevent him from buying the company, turns to the poison pill strategy but without success. After Twitter accepts the offer, he pulls back and pauses negotiations, claiming that Twitter is withholding regarding the number of spam accounts on their platform. Twitter sues Musk, alleging him not only of breaching their contract which would cost him a whopping $1 billion if the judge ruled for Twitter, as well as causing major damage to the company’s internal structure and value. Their complaint criticises how “Musk apparently believes that he — unlike every other party subject to Delaware contract law — is free to change his mind, trash the company, disrupt its operations, destroy stockholder value, and walk away”. Looks like someone is unpopular at the Twitter headquarters. His reaction is as expected. He counter-sues the company under the claims that “[the key metrics] contain numerous, material misrepresentations or omissions that distort Twitter’s value”. This game of cat and mouse continues for three more months, until he eventually buys the company in October. And whilst legal experts hypothesis that he did it because it is very hard to break a merging agreement and the first hearing did not sound good for Musk and his legal team, 2.4 million users liked his first tweet after finally going through with the merge.

The political direction in his comment section is now unmistakably right-winged, with Councilwoman Inna Vernikov thanking him “for making sure the USA does not turn into USSR”. Many advocate his role as the hero, saving the free speech on Twitter and asking him to reinstate accounts which have been banned for hate-speech and spreading of misinformation in the past. But where did all this talk about Twitter no longer supporting ‘free speech’ and censoring its users come from anyway?

It all started when the platform rewrote its rule after realising that “so-called free speech can actually be used as a weapon to silence the vulnerable and dispossessed” and that sometimes you must censor your users in order to maintain your position as a platform for free discourse. Thus, speech inciting violence against people “on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, or disability” were banned. But the ‘absolutely unjustified’ censorship (which is apparently enough to turn the USA into the USSR) does not stop there. In March of 2021, Twitter announces that they “will start labelling misleading tweets about COVID vaccines and ban users who continue to spread such misinformation” and further introduced a “strike system” which “will gradually escalate to a permanent ban after the fifth offending tweet”.

To conclude the debate, the republican users of Twitter miss their old free speech and have found in the now openly republican Musk the perfect hero to safe them from being banned for spreading misinformation on a deadly virus or making racist and offensive tweets.

Because the new Twitter owner conveniently does it himself!

And he does not disappoint their expectations. The rules against spreading misinformation on the ever-killing virus are taken down in November of 2022, making the CEO once again highly unpopular with public health officials and the people who fought at the front lines during the pandemic. But his quest for ‘free speech’, instating himself even more as the new republican social-media leader, and garnering even more outrage and unpopularity amongst non-republicans is not yet completed. On Jan. 6, the second anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol, he reinstates Micheal Flynn who is “one of the most prominent supporters of false claims that [the election] had been stolen by Biden”. He is additionally a prominent believer of the Trump QAnon conspiracy theory and has called Ukraine’s president Zelensky a “Dangerous fool” whilst strongly praising Putin and his Security Council Deputy Chairman for being “bold leaders who have everything at stake in terms of protecting their country”. Yes, protecting their country, because apparently Russia is now the endangered country and not Ukraine, the country they invaded. But everything for free speech, I guess. Musk himself seems to be on Russia’s side, tweeting a ‘suggestion’ on how to end the war which align with Russia’s own requests

Now, Musk has made a 180 degree transformation and turned from a symbol for the eco-conscious democrat into a full-fletched republican who allows misinformation and reinstates very controversial public figures. However, while he has a strong base of right-wing followers, the public criticism increases steadily, and he has now successfully managed to turn Ukrainian officials and political commentators against him.

During the November of 2022, Musk launched the $8-blue-verification, the inevitable wave of impersonation made him now also unpopular amongst companies and stars who had fallen victim to the predicted havoc. But there is one group in his orbit that we have not yet looked at: his employees. Or should I in Twitters case rather say ex-employees? After his purchase, he not only fired the former CEO but also 3700 employees, more than half of the entire company. Even more followed after his famous hardcore-email, and the remaining employees are now begging for toilet paper as the stench from the bathrooms is flooding the offices, due to recent financial cuts.

Unfortunately though, the mistreatment of his employees is anything but new. In February of 2022, Tesla was sued after hundreds of complaints were filed by its employees due to experiencing racism and systematic harassment against black workers. Racist graffiti could be found all around the building and one worker “heard 50 to 100 racial slurs a day”. Soon after, investor Solomon Chau files a lawsuit because Musk and his executive directors at Tesla breached “fiduciary duty by enabling a toxic work environment”. He is reported to have a habit of “blowing up at those beneath him”, his humiliating and anger-driven behaviour has even become so common, that Executives would joke how “Musk would devour a worker by erupting at them in anger” instead of eating food. After Tesla executive Peter Rawlinson quit, like because of these temper tantrums, another executive failed to bring him back and was thus fired by Musk.

Somehow Musk even avoided the repercussions of the #MeToo movement as several women sued Tesla for sexual harassment without consequences at the workplace. Male workers took pictures of a women’s backside, sharing it with the rest of the workforce. Female employees were objectified on a daily basis, or touched by male co-workers who then lied about their position to dissuade them from reporting the harassment. But apparently they are all just following their CEO, given that Musk exposed himself to a flight attendant in 2016, asking her for an erotic massage in exchange for buying her a horse, leaving the flight attendant traumatized. After declining the generous offer, he cuts back her shifts and later proceeds to pay her $250.000 to silence her. He now calls the claims wild and a “concerted effort to silence him”.

And while Media psychologist Jo Groeble speculates that his image could recover, I am of the firm belief and sincerly hope that it won’t. After all this, you cannot help but wonder, if Musk looks back on his childhood and believes that the small, bullied, and beaten boy who fiercely fought against racism, would have been proud of the person he is now. What do you think?

TL;DR: In the name of 'free speech', Musk legalizes hate-speech and misinformation on Twitter and reinstates highly dangerous political figures on the anniversary of the tragedy which they promoted. All whilst banning journalists, politicians and anti-fascist accounts/organizations because they disagree with his opinions. Apparently, free speech only applies to people who share his opinion. Throwing temper-tantrums and erupting at workers is just as normal as inciting a toxic work-environment, racism, and sexual harassment. In the span of a year, he has made himself unpopular with his employees, democrats, feminists, people of colour, yes, even entire countries if we take a look at Ukraine.

#caic2223

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allthebrazilianpolitics · 2 years ago

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After testing times, Brazil is back

Synergy between public health system principles and foreign policy must be resumed

The return of Luís Inácio Lula da Silva as president represents an opportunity for Brazil to rebuild its public health system (SUS) and resume its leadership in global health, relaunching cooperation with the global south. However, President Lula will face even greater challenges than those in his previous presidency (2002-10), considering that Brazilian public health was recently described by experts as “scorched earth.”1

Since 2016, the national health services have experienced relentless cuts in public funding. This has led to substantial decreases in the number of services provided by SUS, an increase in indicators of child malnutrition and maternal deaths, and the downgrading or withdrawal of successful programmes such as people’s pharmacies, community health agents, and the response to HIV/AIDS.2

One of the most disturbing examples of the decay is the Brazilian national immunisation programme.3 After nearly half a century of progress, vaccination coverage of the population, including all World Health Organization recommended vaccines, dropped from 73% in 2019 to 67% in 2020 and 59% in 2021, far from the desirable level of 95%.4 The childhood vaccination rate fell from 93.1% in 2019 to 71.5% in 2021, placing Brazil among the countries with the lowest coverage in the world.5

Another important challenge was the devasting effect of covid-19 in Brazil with nearly 700 000 deaths and more than 36 million reported cases since early 2020.6 The botched federal response included official recommendations of ineffective treatments such as chloroquine and ivermectin, delay in purchasing vaccines, the boycott of public health measures adopted by local governments, and the wide dissemination of fake news by public agencies.7 The previous president, Jair Bolsonaro, even disseminated false associations between covid-19 vaccines and HIV, and between wearing masks and pneumonia.8 In his inauguration speech on 1 January 2023, Lula stated that “the responsibilities for this genocide must be investigated and must not go unpunished” following due process and a broad right of defence. 9

Despite the ministry of health’s historical importance as head of the SUS, controlling resources for more than 5000 municipalities, technical staff were replaced by military personnel, and health policies were guided by ideological and religious principles rather than scientific evidence during the covid pandemic.

#brazil #politics #brazilian politics #healthcare #mod nise da silveira #image description in alt

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mongowheelie · 1 month ago

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If Trump believes in childhood vaccines, why did he come out against them and the COVID-19 vaccine that he denigrated all the time when his followers came out against them? He did spend a lot of government money to get the COVID-19 vaccine to the population quickly! He then started spouting Qanon and Anti-Vaccination conspiracy theories, and pushing Ivermectin (which is an animal de-wormer), Chloroquine Phosphate (used to clean fish tanks), and alcohol based hand sanitizers! None of which are approved to treat COVID-19 by the FDA or CDC! Trump also asked if inserting lights anally or somehow get them in your body would help! He did this on national television during a press conference! All of this combined allowed people to not get vaccinations and die from COVID-19.

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darkmaga-returns · 2 months ago

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Alleges false statements on Covid report.

John Leake

Nov 01, 2024

NBC News just reported the following:

The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic sent a letter Wednesday to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland accusing the former governor of providing false statements to the panel when he testified on June 11. In the Republican-led committee’s referral, it says Cuomo “knowingly and willfully made materially false statements” to the panel during its investigation into the New York’s Covid-19 response. The statements in question stem from exchanges about a New York state Department of Health report on nursing home infections and deaths that was released on July 6, 2020.

The report caught my eye because I have long followed the New York nursing home scandal, which I thoroughly investigated for our book The Courage to Face COVID-19: Preventing Hospitalization and Death While Battling the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex.

This particular chapter about the mindbogglingly stupid and criminal pandemic response is so noteworthy that I believe it is worth republishing here on our Substack.

CHAPTER 11: “Cuomosexuals”

On the same day (March 23) that Dr. Bright initiated his scheme to restrict hydroxychloroquine to hospitalized patients, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo issued the following executive order:

No pharmacist shall dispense hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine except when written as prescribed as an FDA-approved indication; or as part of a state approved clinical trial related to COVID-19 for a patient who has tested positive for COVID-19 with such test result documented as part of the prescription. No other experimental or prophylactic use shall be permitted …

This order prohibited New York pharmacies from filling off-label prescriptions for Covid patients. The exceptionally determined Dr. Zelenko found a way to get around it, but it made his practice much more difficult.

Two days later, on March 25, the New York Department of Health issued the following directive to nursing home administrators:

No resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to the NH solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19. NHs are prohibited from requiring a hospitalized resident who is determined medically stable to be tested for COVID-19 prior to admission or readmission.

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