4 min read I write to you to share my deep concerns. As a public health professional, a psychologist and an educator, it is clear to me that children and young people, although practically unaffected by the virus, have been the biggest victims of the response.
4 min read COVAX looks set to continue the remarkable spate of destruction to livelihoods, human rights and future health prospects resulting from lockdowns against COVID-19 across much of the globe.
2 min read As we all know, the JCVI advised against vaccinating 12-15 year olds for the good reason that the risks outweigh the benefits. Politics won and the government nevertheless went ahead and approved it.
2 min read In response to plans to roll out the COVID-19 vaccination program to children and young people, PANDA sent this letter to all Members of European Parliament.
< 1 min read PANDA requested that Discovery Health remove inaccurate information about the Covid-19 vaccines from their FAQ page on the Discovery website. Here is the correspondence between PANDA and Adrian Gore on this matter.
13 min read If the Covid-pandemic has taught us anything, it is that democracy has been suspended almost universally across the planet. For more than 500 days, Minister Dlamini-Zuma has governed the minutiae of our lives by decree.
6 min read From the start, PANDA has maintained that vaccination should be approached from the same risk-benefit perspective that forms the basis of all good public health policies and animates our other perspectives on the pandemic.
5 min read Vaccine passports are a pointless ‘public health’ tool that will undermine trust in the medical profession and vaccination programs. They seem to serve economic, financial, political and ideological agendas. Most fundamentally, they are unethical.
7 min read The response to Angelo Ryan’s opinion piece in the Mail & Guardian on “vaccine hesitancy” is more interesting for what it tells you about the state of our captured media, than what it tells you about vaccination. Daily Maverick, Groundup, Bhekisisa and others have once again told us that they are promoting a specific narrative and censoring and demanding that others censor contrary views. Can you trust organisations that tell you that this is how they are conducting the business of journalism to give you accurate information in future? We think not.
< 1 min read A professor of Computer Science and Technology sent a well referenced letter to authorities in India, as most schools remain closed.
