WHO kills off Covid vaccine

 

The corrupt and incompetent World Health Organisation has killed of an effective Covid vaccine for quasi-religious reasons.

 

Health Canada approved the vaccine Covifenz in February of last year, after studies showed two doses were 71 per cent effective in protecting adults 18 to 64 against COVID-19 infection and disease. The vaccine was 70 per cent effective against Omicron.

The Medicago technology was also widely seen as having great potential for creating both vaccines and antibody treatments for other conditions, including cancers, arthritis and multiple sclerosis.

But the plants used in production are a cousin of the tobacco plant and were supplied by tobacco giant Phillip Morris, which was a minority (21 per cent) shareholder.

You can probably guess where this is going.

“It's well known the WHO and the UN have a very strict policy regarding engagement with the tobacco and arms industry, so the process is put on hold. It's very likely it won’t be accepted for emergency use listing," Mariangela Simao, a spokesperson for the WHO, said in a statement to CTV News Montreal at the time.

Without WHO’s endorsement, few governments were willing to buy the vaccine. 

 

At what point do people at the WHO ask themselves 'are we the baddies?' In 2021, I wrote an article contrasting the WHO's warm embrace of newly invented Covid vaccines which, despite rare adverse events, are a big net gain for public health, with its hostile approach to e-cigarettes, which are no longer new, have no major side effects and are also a huge net gain for public health. I said...

When it comes to vaccines, the WHO is interested in relative risks and the overall effect on the health of the population. When it comes to vaping, however, it cannot see beyond tiny – and largely hypothetical – absolute risks.

A major reason for the WHO's antipathy towards e-cigarettes is that the tobacco industry makes and sells some of them. When you have that kind of comic book mentality, I suppose it is only a short walk to rejecting effective vaccines on the basis that the vaccine comes from a tobacco-like plant and a tobacco company own a minority shareholding in the company that developed it.

It cannot be said too often that 'public health' is not about health. 

The Medicago technology was also widely seen as having great potential for creating both vaccines and antibody treatments for other conditions, including cancers, arthritis and multiple sclerosis.

 

But none of that will be happening thanks to the FIFA of public health.

Medicago had been preparing to launch full-scale production. However, its parent company, Mitsubishi Chemical Group, announced last week Medicago was closing down. Officials cited changes to the COVID-19 “vaccine landscape” and lower global demand for COVID-19 vaccines. 

... That decision in Geneva effectively started the company on a death spiral, with the closure leading to 600 job losses.

Nice work!

For more on this, read the CTV News article.