Africa Refuses To Buy More Vaccines From Moderna

African Refuses To Buy More Vaccines From Moderna

Only around 400 million of the over 700 million medicines sent to Africa have been used, having left hundreds of millions on the shelf to decompose. As such a climate prevails, Africa has refused to buy more vaccines from Moderna.

Science By Press Release

Science By Press Release

If a study has a press release strategy, it’s fair to assume that its motivations are more aligned with good press rather than good science. On March 18th, the world was treated to another negative headline: “Ivermectin Didn’t Reduce Covid-19 Hospitalizations in Largest Trial to Date”. It wasn’t possible for the journalist to interrogate that claim, because the study hadn’t been published. Nonetheless, the headline was dutifully beamed out by the Wall Street Journal in another example of “Science by Press Release.”