The swine flu scam?

Evans, Meirion Rhys ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3578-1866 2010. The swine flu scam? Journal of Public Health 32 (3) , pp. 296-297. 10.1093/pubmed/fdq059

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Abstract

There is a conspiracy theory about nearly everything. So claims that swine flu was a scam come as no surprise. ‘This was a pandemic that never really was’ according to Paul Flynn, MP who prepared a recent report on the flu pandemic for the Council of Europe.1 The report expresses alarm about the way the pandemic was handled. It criticizes the proportionality of the response and argues that over reaction led to waste of public money, distortion of public health priorities and unjustified fears about health risks. It identifies ‘grave shortcomings’ in the transparency of decision-making processes and concerns about the influence of the pharmaceutical industry. The World Health Organization (WHO) comes in for particular criticism for failing to publish the declarations of interest of members of its Emergency Committee, the group advising director general Dr Margaret Chan on the pandemic response.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISSN:	1741-3842
Last Modified:	20 Oct 2022 07:47
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/26391

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