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This is scandalous.

"#EmergencyUseVaccine" - as response to polio outbreaks - caused by vaccines.

Nov 13 2020: "#WHO today listed the nOPV2 vaccine for emergency use to address the rising cases of a vaccine-derived polio strain in a # of African & E. Mediterranean countries."
"The emergency use listing, or #EUL, is the first of its kind for a vaccine & paves the way for potential listing of #COVID19 #vaccines."

Children in impoverished/destabilized countries are given an oral vaccine - discontinued in wealthy countries decades ago.

#Imperialism
Aired on CBC, 44 yrs ago.

Dr. Jonas #Salk, July 6, 1977:

"We have known now since 1961 in the US, and prior to that in other countries, that the live virus #vaccine for #polio, does cause the disease itself." 👇

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At this point many physicians and scholars have discussed how and why COVID-19 disproportionately affected black and brown folk. @ezekielRMed #ShareTheMicNowMed 1/
They’ve said it better than I have: decades (centuries) of systemic racism that created packed housing, chronic illness, and the lack of capital that disallowed many to adjust. @ezekielRMed @uche_blackstock @dn_charles @CamaraJones #ShareTheMicNowMed 2/
So what do we do about it? Why aren’t the issues that spread COVID like fire through kindling as central to the field of medicine as sterile technique? (serious question) @ezekielRMed #ShareTheMicNowMed 3/
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