Policy & Ethics

Where science meets society: regulatory decisions, research ethics, public health policy, and the debates around how scientific knowledge is applied, funded, and communicated.

Would someone kindly tell me who decided that prescribing medications need not be limited to, say, people who know how to prescribe medications, for example, physicians who prescribe medications?
Canadian biotech firm Medicago has done the world a great service.
The Failure of Complex Systems
Exactly two years ago, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. At the time, 118,000 cases and 4,000 deaths had been reported. Today, over 450 million people have been diagnosed, and over six million have died from the virus.
Over the past several years, our government has taken control of doctors’ prescription pads.
Lockdowns, non-pharmacologic interventions, and that includes wearing masks have been a feature of our lives for well over a year. We are not alone as the Hopkins study reports of the 186 countries studied all but one imposed restrictions.
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