In a video making rounds on Social Media, two French doctors discuss testing a potential new treatment of Coronavirus on Africans first before whites.
They said this on live Television while giving updates on COVID-19 in the country stating that just like potential treatment for AIDS on prostitutes, the treatment can still be done on Africans before any other.
The video has sparked outrage among people who said that that was demeaning of any human life and should never be done.
“This is horrific. Two French doctors on live television are discussing how a potential new treatment against #covid19 should be first tested in Africa, “where are no masks, no treatment, no reanimation”, “the same way experimental treatment for AIDS was done on prostitutes”.
“It’s 2020 in France &we still see people from Africa as subjects for experimentation. This is what normalized racism looks like.AFAIK,nobody jumped in to counter the arguments, both doctors agreed. Same, the way sex-workers are considered: like objects that can be used for tests.”
Translation
Dr Mira: “If I can be provocative, shouldn’t we do this study in Africa, where there are no masks, no treatment, no resuscitation, a bit like it has been done in some studies in AIDS, where among prostitutes, we try things, because they are exposed, and they don’t protect themselves, what do you think?”
Dr Locht: “So you are right[…]we’re thinking in parallel to a study in Africa precisely to make this same type of approach w/ BCG [vaccine]placebo,I think there is a call for tenders that was released or that will be released & I think we will indeed srsly think about that too”
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