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Re-thinking Covid-19

It’s time to recognise the destruction caused by the politicisation of the virus

6 March 2021

9:00 AM

6 March 2021

9:00 AM

On 13 November Kamran Abbasi, editor of the British Medical Journal, argued that the medical debate on Covid-19 and policies to contain it have become corrupted through politicisation of science: ‘The pandemic has revealed how the medical-political complex can be manipulated in an emergency’. The silent roar of ‘Bravo!’ you heard was from me.

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