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Vaccines are not seat belts, and motor vehicles are not human beings

10 Apr

The debate on the coercive vaccination is raised many times with the example of the acceptance of the implementation of the mandatory use of  seat belts in motor vehicles. It is a very popular approach usually led by those who lack scientific training in vaccines. Seat belts are no vaccines, and motor vehicles are not human beings so the ethical foundation of coercive seat belts laws does not apply to coercive vaccination policies. Mandatory vaccination, which already exists in some countries, is being promoted when the outbreaks of vaccine preventable diseases are presented as the responsibility of the “anti-vaccines”. But “anti-vax” are residuals in the world.
  • Vaccines are not seat belts, and motor vehicles are not human beings. Gérvas J, Pérez-Fernández M. Madrid, Spain. April 2024. Download article here.

Veoza (fezolinetant) for hot flushes in menopause – think twice!

20 Jan

During the climacteric period, before, during and after the menopause, hot flushes are common. In general they can be endured without great discomfort and subside with time, but there are cases of great intensity and persistence. This paper discusses the marketing of Veoza (fezolinetant) for the relief of hot flushes. The issue is that it is an expensive, ineffective drug with significant adverse effects.
  • Veoza (fezolinetant) for hot flushes in menopause – think twice!  Pérez-Fernández M, Gérvas J. Madrid, Spain. January 2024. Download article here.

The European Alliance for Responsible R&D and Affordable Medicines transparency of clinical trials and good governance should be included in the EMA (European Medicines Agency) extended mandate

13 Sep

In occasion of the ongoing trilogues on the European Medicines Agency (EMA) extended mandate, Members of the European Alliance for Responsible R&D and Affordable Medicines urge the Council to ensure the new Regulation enhances clinical trial transparency and upholds good governance.    As explained in a letter published today, it is crucial that information on clinical trials is made available in a timely, user-friendly, and complete manner. This is key to avoid unnecessary duplications and to accelerate the development of new therapies and vaccines, especially during a public health emergency.
  • The European Alliance for Responsible R&D and  Affordable Medicines transparency of clinical trials and good governance should be included in the EMA (European Medicines Agency) extended mandate. Brussels, Belgium, 9 September 2021 Download article here.

Mandating covid19 vaccines? Nonsense proposals

1 Feb

Mandatory vaccination against covid19 of health care workers is proposed because there are vaccines that might reduce the transmission of the virus, SARS-CoV-2, and might  protect both the health workforce and patients.
The question that arises is scientific and ethical because of the fact that we do not yet know whether the vaccine will prevent transmission (and thus produce herd immunity).
Will the vaccine protect only those who get vaccinated?
The unknowns of how the vaccine covid19 affects transmission makes the possibility of achieving herd immunity through vaccination uncertain.
It lacks logic and scientific and ethical foundation to demand compulsory covid19 vaccination in general and in specific cases as health care workers in health centres/hospitals, nursing homes and other health/social care centres. The proposals for mandating covid19 vaccines are unethical.
  • Mandating covid19 vaccines? Nonsense proposals. Gérvas J. Madrid (Spain) February 2021. Download article here.

Influenza-flu vaccine and covid19. Fifteen questions

12 Oct

The flu vaccine is a failed vaccine, useless at best, that discredits vaccines in general. The situation created by the #COVID19 pandemic does not change the recommendation not to use it. 15 questions with answers and references.

  • Influenza-flu vaccine and covid19. Fifteen questions. Gérvas J. Madrid, October, 2020. Dowload article here.

Covid-19, structure and conjuncture, ideology and politics

8 Aug

No one knows very well how to save the capitalist economy from its own general and pandemic debacles. There are only conjectures. They seem to express an ideological and desiderative a priori rather than a realistic and rigorous analysis of the present state of affairs: neoliberals stubbornly demanding for more market and lesser state (as if there had not been enough thanatic doses of laissez faire), and neo Keynesians candidly demanding less market and more state (as if today’s late capitalism, hyper-globalized and hyper-concentrated, allowed just returning to the good old days of the welfare post-war Nation-State). The fact is that neither party escapes the framework that encloses them.
Humanity seems to have entered blind folded into the eye of the storm, in a crisis of civilization. Its only difference with the Greek goddess Themis is its unbalanced scales and its blunt sword.
  • Covid-19, structure and conjuncture, ideology and politics. Petruccelli A, F Mare. Neuquén, Argentina. Mayo 2020. Download article here.

COVID-19 meets slums: drug cartels respond to the pandemic

8 Aug

From an epidemiological perspective favelas need to be protected not only due to population density, but also given the high social vulnerability; in view of equity, a key principle of the SUS. However, when protective measures are guided by crime organizations instead of by the government itself, we question whether the former have greater humanitarian concern than the latter.

  • COVID-19 meets slums: drug cartels respond to the pandemic. LS Ribeiro, DM Gonzaga, M P den Burg, J Gérvas. Río de Janeiro, Brazil. June 2020. Download article here.
This paper was published in the Rev Bras Med Fam Comunidade. Rio de Janeiro, 2021 Jan-Dez; 16(43):2675 “Drug cartels respond to the pandemic”
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