Letter to the Editor
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World J Exp Med. Mar 20, 2025; 15(1): 98575
Published online Mar 20, 2025. doi: 10.5493/wjem.v15.i1.98575
What would Hippocrates have sworn upon witnessing the COVID-19 mandates and mortality paradox
Mina Thabet Kelleni
Mina Thabet Kelleni, Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, Minia University, Minya 61519, Egypt
Author contributions: Kelleni MT wrote the content of the manuscript; the author read and approved the final version of the manuscript to be published.
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Corresponding author: Mina Thabet Kelleni, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, Minia University, Main Road Shalaby Land, Minya 61519, Egypt. mina.kelleni@mu.edu.eg
Received: June 29, 2024
Revised: November 16, 2024
Accepted: December 9, 2024
Published online: March 20, 2025
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Abstract

For the first time in human history, hundreds of millions of people all over the world have been subjected to compulsory vaccination with a new type of nucleic acid based vaccines in order to keep their jobs or be able to travel due to some notorious coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) mandates. The vast majority of African countries were either initially deprived of these vaccines, or later, a majority of the population was too skeptical to receive them and preferred a safe early treatment pharmacological approach. Yet, Africa had the lowest COVID-19 mortality rate compared to those countries that adopted mass vaccination. This letter to the editor adds African insights that should be helpful in future pandemics to save millions of precious lives.

Keywords: Hippocrates; COVID-19; Nucleic acid based vaccines; COVID mandates; COVID mortality paradox; Kelleni's protocol

Core Tip: From an African perspective, we feel fortunate that we were able to avoid the compulsory nucleic acid-based coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination and most COVID mandates. This letter to the editor aims to call for a fair assessment of the damage induced by those mandates compared to our African early treatment approach that saved the lives of the African people who were too skeptical to adopt the early global propaganda claiming “perfectly safe and perfectly effective vaccines”. This propaganda was later revealed to not be as safe or effective, at least as shown by societies of COVID-19 vaccine victims all over the world, as well as by a COVID-19 mortality paradox that favored Africa over wealthy, heavily COVID-19 vaccinated countries.