Kelleni MT. What would Hippocrates have sworn upon witnessing the COVID-19 mandates and mortality paradox. World J Exp Med 2025; 15(1): 98575 [DOI: 10.5493/wjem.v15.i1.98575]
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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
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Infectious Diseases
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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.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The author declares that there are no competing interests associated with this manuscript.
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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 Processing time: 179 Days and 9.7 Hours
Core Tip
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.
