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Cc Frans Timmermans, Executive Vice President, European Green Deal
Margaritis Schinas, Vice President, Promoting our European Way of Life
Subject:
Call to urgently develop the Green Pillar of the European Health Union for a Healthy Recovery from the Pandemic
Dear President von der Leyen,
We, representatives of the undersigned organisations, are writing to you to express our grave concerns regarding the lack of coherence between the European Health Union proposals and the European Green Deal’s zero pollution ambition, especially in the area of transport. We urgently call on you to make the two initiatives truly linked and coherent by including the relevant European Green Deal initiatives under the coverage of the European Health Union as a ‘Green Pillar’ to both meet the climate goals of the Paris Agreement and ensure a healthy recovery from the pandemic.
Help at hand Mycobacterium W has been found useful in treating critically ill Covid patients - REUTERS
Help at hand Mycobacterium W has been found useful in treating critically ill Covid patients - REUTERS×
Use of immuno-modulator like Mycobacterium W could be an effective method till vaccines achieve herd immunity
The emergence of mutations of SARS-CoV-2 from the UK (B.1.1.7), South Africa (B.1.351), Brazil (P.1 lineage) and then California (B.1.427 and B.1.429) and now in India (B.1.617 and reports of a triple mutant) are worrisome in the war against Covid-19 as they spread infections faster and also escape neutralising immune response following disease or vaccine. Various strategies are being explored by scientists around the world to overcome this challenge. Harnessing the power of innate immunity is one of them.
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A man smokes a cigarette that was allegedly smuggled into Venezuela (AFP via Getty Images)
A research paper which claimed that current smokers are significantly less likely to be diagnosed with Covid-19 compared to non-smokers was retracted after some of the study’s authors were found to have undisclosed links with the tobacco industry. The study by scientists from the University of Piraeus, in Greece, and the University of Utah in the US, assessed more than 89,000 laboratory-confirmed Covid cases in Mexico, and published the results in the
European Respiratory Journal in July as an “early view”
EDMONTON A research paper claiming smokers are 23 per cent less likely to contract COVID-19 than non-smokers has been retracted by a European medical journal after it was revealed the study authors had financial ties to the tobacco industry. The study, published in the European Respiratory Journal in July 2020, alleged that a current smoking habit was not associated with adverse outcomes in COVID-19 patients admitted to hospital, and claimed that smokers were at a lower risk of acquiring the disease altogether. The research also cited other studies claiming that infection was less prevalent in smokers or tobacco users. But following the publication of the study, it was revealed that two of the authors, Jose M. Mier and Konstantinos Poulas, failed to disclose their close ties to the tobacco industry.
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