Deputy Jorge Gaviño, from the PRD, asked the head of the Digital Agency for Public Innovation (ADIP), José Peña Merino, to justify the decision to use Ivermectin in people with Covid-19.
This after a document, published by Peña Merino and other CDMX officials, was removed from the SocArXiv website on the grounds that the results it presented on the effectiveness of the treatment They were false and misleading.
The legislator pointed out that it is necessary to know if the decision to deliver the Covid-19 kitswhich contained Ivermectin, was after the completion of the study; Otherwise, he indicated that the Government’s action could represent a violation of the Nuremberg and Helsinki codes.
“We think that there is some lack of both ethics and bioethics, in such a way that we could think that, if we go to an extreme, the Nuremberg and Helsinki codes could have been violated, which prohibit the introduction of a patient to a study without the adequate knowledge of what is being done to the patient,” he said.
He announced that they will request a work table with the head of the ADIP to answer questions about the situation and revealed the possibility of requesting an appearance from the server, since public resources were used to buy the drug.
After Phillip N. Cohen, director of SocArXiv, reported that the study had been withdrawn, Merino wrote a letter expressing his dismay at the decision and reiterating that the study’s methodology is “rigorous.”
However, Cohen assured that it was the government’s decision to distribute a medicine untested which led them to take down the document.
“Yes, we are the wrong people to argue about the merits of an article. Low-quality research is fine, that’s common, but dosing hundreds of thousands of people without their consent with unproven drugs and putting bad research on our platform to justify it is where we draw the line,” Cohen said.
Within the Legislative there are not only calls to a work table to clear up doubts, there are also complaints about the case.
Deputy America Rangel, of the BREADannounced that next week they will present complaints against the Head of GovernmentClaudia Sheinbaum, and Merino for the use of Ivermectinwhich he assured was a “medical experiment”.
Meanwhile, the Health Secretary published an information card in which he stated that it was not “a medical experiment” and that it has scientific bases minted since 2020.
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