The Potential Beneficiary of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Africa’s Pharmaceutical Industry

“When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn’t work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life-form or a species will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary leap.”

Turning Adversity Into Opportunity

Coronavirus Vaccine Supply Constraints

“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word ‘crisis.’ One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger, but recognize the opportunity.” John F. Kennedy

Much as lower and lower-middle-income countries are caught in the middle of these squabbles, their governments need to study the factors that have contributed to the current predicament. It will be unfortunate ...

Vaccine Geopolitics Amid A Potential Global COVID-19 Third Wave

“We are sometimes astounded by the behaviour of emotional outlaws, as they act in line with their own standards, but proceed like bulls-in-a-china-shop, create one heck of a mess in their living environment and bring about shocking disturbing dissensions, ever since their inner construction clashes with our emotional architecture.”

The raising of red flags is the first step in reviewing the frequency and probability of occurrence of the particular ADR. If the probability of it occurring in those using the medicinal product exceeds that of the general population, most regulators will institute a review of the newly licensed medication and restrict its use further.

Geopolitics, Big Pharma and the Assumed Vaccine-Related Blood Clots

“Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds — justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can’t go on. To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.”