French Doctor Apologises for Suggesting COVID-19 Treatment Be Tested in Africa
By Reuters
DAKAR — A French doctor apologised on Friday for suggesting a possible treatment for COVID-19 should be tested in Africa, after the remarks sparked an outcry on social media.
Jean-Paul Mira, the head of the intensive care unit at the Cochin hospital in Paris, made the comments on Wednesday during an interview on French television channel LCI with the research director of France's national health institute, Inserm.
The research director, Camille Locht, was discussing the BCG tuberculosis vaccine, which is being trialled in several European countries and Australia against COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus.
Mira asked: "If I could be provocative, should we not do this study in Africa where there are no masks, treatment or intensive care, a little bit like it's done, by the way, for certain AIDS studies or with prostitutes?"
"We try things because we know that they are highly exposed and they don't protect themselves," he said.
Camille Locht, the research director from France's Inserm, responded: "You are right. And by the way, we are in the process of thinking in parallel about a study in Africa ... That doesn't prevent us, in parallel, from also thinking about a study in Europe and in Australia."
The comments triggered outrage on social media.
"Africa isn’t a testing lab," retired Ivory Coast soccer star, Didier Drogba, wrote on Twitter. "I would like to vividly denounce those demeaning, false and most of all deeply racist words."
A Moroccan lawyers' collective said it was going to sue Mira for racial defamation.
In a statement on Friday, Mira's employer, the Paris network of hospitals, quoted Mira as saying: "I want to present all my apologies to those who were hurt, shocked and felt insulted by the remarks that I clumsily expressed on LCI this week."
Locht could not be immediately reached for comment. Inserm said on Twitter that the video of the exchange was being misinterpreted, without elaborating, and noted that the vaccine is only being trialled in Europe and Australia at present.
当时抢注名字没抢过，只好叫读者文摘
落后就要挨打，落后就会被杀
真的要感谢前辈先祖和当代英雄 国强太重要了
就这街上还有不少吹印度比中国医药如何如何牛逼呢
能说实话吗？能的话我就开始了。我们其实也挺希望有些东西在阿三那边先试验的
在他们眼里我们也不算，也就是我们现在不好欺负了，换清末试试。
你们太无聊了
人家已经道歉了！！！！还想怎么样啊？？！！！
French Doctor Apologises for Suggesting COVID-19 Treatment Be Tested in Africa
By Reuters
DAKAR — A French doctor apologised on Friday for suggesting a possible treatment for COVID-19 should be tested in Africa, after the remarks sparked an outcry on social media.
Jean-Paul Mira, the head of the intensive care unit at the Cochin hospital in Paris, made the comments on Wednesday during an interview on French television channel LCI with the research director of France's national health institute, Inserm.
The research director, Camille Locht, was discussing the BCG tuberculosis vaccine, which is being trialled in several European countries and Australia against COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus.
Mira asked: "If I could be provocative, should we not do this study in Africa where there are no masks, treatment or intensive care, a little bit like it's done, by the way, for certain AIDS studies or with prostitutes?"
"We try things because we know that they are highly exposed and they don't protect themselves," he said.
Camille Locht, the research director from France's Inserm, responded: "You are right. And by the way, we are in the process of thinking in parallel about a study in Africa ... That doesn't prevent us, in parallel, from also thinking about a study in Europe and in Australia."
The comments triggered outrage on social media.
"Africa isn’t a testing lab," retired Ivory Coast soccer star, Didier Drogba, wrote on Twitter. "I would like to vividly denounce those demeaning, false and most of all deeply racist words."
A Moroccan lawyers' collective said it was going to sue Mira for racial defamation.
In a statement on Friday, Mira's employer, the Paris network of hospitals, quoted Mira as saying: "I want to present all my apologies to those who were hurt, shocked and felt insulted by the remarks that I clumsily expressed on LCI this week."
Locht could not be immediately reached for comment. Inserm said on Twitter that the video of the exchange was being misinterpreted, without elaborating, and noted that the vaccine is only being trialled in Europe and Australia at present.
这种事西方国家也不会少到哪去。大家都知道你啥意思，但什么时候都要踩一脚自己的行为也属实没意思。
莫乳清啊，大清再烂控制疫情的水平也比欧美好上几百条街
16年之前就是月刊吧，我10年初中就订了，就是月刊。
那是因为你用文化作品去了解西方，你英语够好的话只要看几星期美国的各种新闻节目就知道他们一直是这个尿性的，有产业链顶端的巨额利润撑着罢了
财经类节目看起来还是吃力，毕竟自己不是这专业的，各种专业名词是真听不懂，我英语水平基本就是吃喝玩乐啥的都能听，专业的东西除了自己专业内容其他基本听不来
120Hz
这货不是个好东西，你也不是个。。。
看看fb和twitter 上面中国法语新闻下面的留言吧。
另外今天bfmtv这事儿你肯定知道吧
阿三不会同意的也能做到不同意，非洲却是任人摆布。
是的。。
《读者文摘》（Reader's Digest），是一本家庭月刊，1922年于美国创刊。2004年，美国的销量已达一千万册。它是当前世界上最畅销的杂志之一，现在已发展至50个版本
这个总结有水平！
平时都是装的。
衣冠禽兽而已。
我在美国7年表示这次我一点都不吃惊。都是白人基操，最多算是平时脸上抹着粉现在素颜
别说清朝，就是民国的时候他们都会拿中国人实验，看看小日本，日本鬼子真是该死